Eddie Kendricks

Listen/Download – Eddie Kendricks – Boogie Down MP3

Greetings all.

The end of the week is upon us, so I will remind you once again to dig into this week’s Funky16Corners Radio Show podcast. The show drops each and every Friday and can be had by subscribing to it as a podcast in iTunes, listening on your mobile device via the TuneIn app, on Mixcloud, or as an MP3 right here at the blog.

There also may be some positive news in regard to a new internet radio home for the show, so stay tuned for details!

We end the week with one of my all time favorite slices of funky disco, that I have been a fan of since its original release back in 1973.

I can state unequivocally that I first heard Eddie Kendricks’ mighty ‘Boogie Down’ on WABC-AM (in NYC) while staying up all night in a pup tent on a Boy Scout trip. I can distinctly recall this one, as well as ‘Rock On’ by David Essex and ‘Until You Come Back To Me’ by Aretha Franklin (alongside ads for the local dragstrip, Raceway Park) winding their way deep into my impressionable, 12-year-old ears.

‘Boogie Down’, written by Leonard Caston, Anita Poree and Frank Wilson was Kendricks’ second consecutive R&B #1 hit, as well as a substantial Pop hit, making it all the way to #2.

‘Boogie Down’ is a fantastic example of the early days of disco, in which the records still had a decent amount of funk welded onto their frames. It is highly danceable (pushed along by a rolling piano line and percussion), and of course features Eddie’s mighty falsetto out in front.

While Kendricks continued to place records high on the R&B charts, this was his last significant Pop hit.

I hope you dig it (and get up and dance).

I’ll see you all on Monday.

Keep the faith

Larry

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2 Responses to “Eddie Kendricks – Boogie Down”

1. DJ Waterman says:

   May 21, 2016 at 1:49 pm

   When Disco is good, it’s very good.

2. Larry says:

   May 21, 2016 at 2:22 pm

   True that. I know there are a lot of soul fans that will not cross the divide into disco, but that’s their loss. I’ve made picking up disco on 45 a minor sideline, and do so whenever I can.