NOTE: As a result of my hospital stay and lots of lost blogging time, I’m going to dip back into the archives for some groovy things to hold you over until I get back.

Also, don’t forget to tune in to an all new episode of the Funky16Corners Radio Show, Friday night at 9PM on Viva Radio.

So dig it, and Keep the Faith
Larry

Listen/Download Cal’s Tricks – Who’s Gonna Take the Weight

Greetings all

 

The track I bring you today is something I picked up whilst grazing at the last Allentown All 45 show.

It’s hard not to be overwhelmed in a room packed to the gills with 45s, but since a lot of the dealers (and the kind of stock they bring with them) have become familiar to me over the years, I try to maintain a s small amount of focus.

These days my “want list” (as it is) isn’t very long.

There are a couple of very crucial things that I’m always on the lookout for, but outside of those, I tend to cast a pretty wide net. The old frame of reference is sharp enough that I come away with more gold that gravel, and the record you see before you today is evidence thereof.

I’d never heard of Cal’s Tricks, or the Secant label, but as soon as I noted the presence of a groovy Kool and the Gang cover, I placed the disc on the keeper pile and kept digging.

Once I got the record home I was very happy with my selection, and moved on to digging for information.

There’s not a lot out there, but what I have found is interesting.

It would seem that the Secant label was active in the Washington, DC/Maryland area during the 70s, releasing a wide variety of styles.

The DC Soul Recordings site noting that only three of their releases seemed to fall into the realm of soul and funk, two of them being records by Cal’s Tricks.

 

‘Who’s Gonna Take the Weight’ – taken here at a slightly faster, dare I say discofied, tempo than the OG – was the second 45 by Cal’s Tricks, released in 1976.

The band’s name seems to be a variation of the name of producer Caltrick Simone.

I don’t think this track or any of Cal’s Tricks tunes have been comped.

I hope you dig the track, and I’ll see you all on Friday.

Keep the faith

Larry

 

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2 Responses to “Best of F16C – Cal’s Tricks – Who’s Gonna Take the Weight”

1. Amaury N de Aguiar says:

   January 23, 2015 at 8:23 am

   Hi, there! I’ve been checking your wonderful website daily for about 3 years now. It’s great information and fun to read. You can’t imagine my surprise today at the coincidence, just as I was opening the page with this track, my iTunes was beginning to play the very same tune, but with Kool & The Gang! They say it’s synchronicity. By the way, I was amazed. Have a fine weekend. Love the website. Keep on the great work. Regards from Brazil.
   Amaury

2. Stu says:

   May 24, 2015 at 12:52 pm

   Wow Larry – this almost beats the original (no, it does beat the original – on account of the little run up of the drums).
   Thanks 🙂