Howard Tate – Get It While You Can (Verve)
Diamond Joe – Fair Play (Minit)
Irma Thomas – I Wish Someone Would Care (Imperial)
Jackie Shane – Any Other Way (Cookin’)
Lee Dorsey and Betty Harris – Please Take Care of Our Love (Sansu)
Van Dykes – No Man Is An Island (Mala)
Otis Redding – Cigarettes and Coffee (Volt/Atco)
Little Buster – I’m So Lonely (Jubilee)
Mable John – Your Good Thing (Is About To End) (Stax)
Sweet Linda Divine – Same Time Same Place (Columbia)
OV Wright – I Want Everyone To Know I Love You (Backbeat)
Rubaiyats – Tomorrow (Sansu)
Eddie Holman – I’ll Cry 1,000 Tears (Bell)
Eldridge Holmes – If I Were a Carpenter (Deesu)
James Carr – The Dark End of the Street (Goldwax)
John Williams and the Tick Tocks – Blues Tears and Sorrows (Sansu)
Laura Lee – Hang It Up (Chess)
Otis Redding – I’ve Been Loving You Too Long To Stop Now (Volt)
Toussaint McCall – Nothing Takes the Place of You (Ronn)
Bobby Womack – Take Me (Minit)

Listen/Download Funky16Corners 10th Anniversary Pt3 – Ballads

Greetings all

“Best Of” week continues.

As I referenced in Monday’s post, big things are afoot, and thanks to some free time and research on my part they seem to be happening at a slightly faster pace that previously thought.

I can’t divulge all yet, but the streamlining/improvements in the operation continue apace.

This year’s Allnighter/fundraiser will likely begin with a grip of new guest mixes toward the end of June. The roster in past years has always been outstanding, and I can assure we have some more heat for you this year.

So dig this mix, and I’ll see you all on Friday.

KTF

Larry

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Welcome to day three of the 10th Anniversary thing.

While I know that you all dig your soul upbeat and danceable, I couldn’t very well put together collections of my favorite stuff without stopping to consider the ballads.

In fact, to try to illustrate the greatness of soul music without touching on the deep side of things would be a fool’s errand.

To many people, these are the kind of records that make for great soul music; big, dramatic performances, expressing love – sought out, or lost – tragedy, tribute and longing.

What I found interesting after putting this mix together, is how many of the performers included were truly versatile, able to deliver a deep ballad, yet also capable (as is illustrated by their appearances in other mixes in this week’s line-up) of working the upbeat (even funky) side of things as well.

There are a lot of heavy, heavy records in this mix, so turn the lights down low, cuddle up with someone you love (or the memory of someone you’ve lost) and feel the soul.

See you on Friday

Also, make sure to follow Funky16Corners on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook.

Keep the faith

Larry

 

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