Bobby Sockers – Sock It To Me Bobby
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Greetings all.
The end of the week is near, and so is the appearance of the latest episode of the Funky16Corners Radio Show podcast. The show drops every Friday with the best in soul, funk and rare groove, all on original vinyl. You can subscribe to the show as a podcast in iTunes, listen on your mobile device via the TuneIn app, check it out on Mixcloud, or grab yourself an MP3 right here at the blog.
Today’s selection is the unusual (soulful) by-product of a string mid-1960s comedy-novelty 45s by a guy named Bill Minkin.
Minkin, along with an assembledge known as the Hardly-Worthit Players (the name being a play on then famous newsmen (Chet) Huntley and (David) Brinkley) released a version of the Troggs’ ‘Wild Thing’, as performed in the (impersonated) voice of Senator Bobby Kennedy. Though this is little-known to anyone that wasn’t around to hear it the first time, it was a fairly substantial pop hit in the Winter of ‘66/’67.
As has always been the case, the parties involved decided to milk the success as much as they could, eventually releasing three 45s (and two LPs on Cameo/Parkway called ‘Boston Soul’ and ‘Senator Bobby’s Christmas Party’) between 1966 and 1968, with covers of Donovan’s ‘Mellow Yellow’ and finally Mitch Ryder’s ‘Sock It To Me Baby’.
The tune I bring you today was the flip side of that final 45. Billed as ‘Sock It To me Bobby’ by the ‘Bobby Sockers’, what you get here is a straight cover of the Mitch Ryder tune, with the ridiculous Bobby Kennedy imitation stripped off, returning it to its roots as an upbeat dancer.
The only downer (as it is) is the inclusion of a super-white-sounding female chorus running under things.
That said, it’s still a groovy record, which I included in one of my 2014 Pledge Drive mixes.
It’s a cool 45 (with a cool story) and I hope you dig it.
Have a great weekend, and I’ll see you all on Monday.
Keep the faith
Larry
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Themocracy
I really like the white sounding female chorus, I think it makes the tune.