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By Larry, December 4, 2014 3:14 pm

Dee Dee Warwick

Greetings all.

The end of the week is upon us, so it’s time once again to remind you that the Funky16Corners Radio Show will be hitting the airwaves of the interwebs, this (and every) Friday night at 9PM on Viva Radio. If you can’t be there at airtime, you can always subscribe to the show as a podcast in iTunes, listen on your mobile device via the TuneIn app, or grab yourself an MP3 here at the blog.

Today’s selection is another one (like Wednesday’s tune) of those tracks that made it into my ears via a British Invasion singer first.

A while back I managed to put my hands on a copy of Chris Farlowe’s ‘The Art of Chris Farlowe’ LP.

Farlowe, first with his band the Thunderbirds, and later on as the vocalist of Colosseum, was one of the really interesting UK singers that never made a serious dent here in the US.

A singularly unusual looking and sounding cat, Farlowe had excellent taste in R&B and soul, and ‘The Art of Chris Farlowe’ is packed with covers of artists like the Four Tops, Jimmy Ruffin, Darrell Banks, Garnet Mimms, and Dee Dee Warwick.

I fell in love with the song ‘We’re Doing Fine’ and with a little digging discovered that it had originally been recorded by Dee Dee Warwick in 1965 for the Blue Rock label.

Written by Horace Ott, the song starts off deceptively quietly, with Warwick eventually joining the acoustic guitar that opens the record.

By the time the band kicks in – brass, strings and electric guitar (arranged by Ott, produced by Ed Townsend) – what you get is a powerful, melodically sophisticated soul 45.

‘We’re Doing Fine’ was Dee Dee Warwick’s first hit, making into the R&B Top 30 in August of 1965. She would continue to score hits into the mid-70s.

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

Keep the faith

Larry

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By Larry, November 9, 2014 3:45 pm

The Brothers/Silvetti

Listen/Download The Brothers – Are You Ready For This

Listen/Download Silvetti – Spring Rain

Greetings all

I hope you’re ready to get your groove on this week.

Having done a lot of reading about (and an exponential amount of listening to) the Northern Soul phenomenon over the last decade or so, something that I discovered – along with a grip of amazing music – is that the musical essence of that scene is not at as monolithic as you might think.

Surely there is a “Northern” sound, but if you dig into the annals, especially in the 1970s explosion in the UK, you discover that some of the DJs and the dancers had open minds (and ears).

Here in the US, where exposure to ‘Northern Soul’ is often tied directly to the mod/60s bag (hewing closer to the Manchester-based 60s scene at the Twisted Wheel, which was instrumental in the development of a rare soul scene in the UK), the idea of hearing a Philadelphia International side, or any other disco-identified sound, is all but blasphemous.

However, take a look at the playlists of many of the biggest Northern clubs in the 70s, and you alongside the ultra-rare Motown-influenced ish, you will also see records – then new – that many soul fans today would file off to the side as ‘disco’.

What a lot of people ignore (to their own peril) is that a much of the music associated with early disco culture is by any other name, soul music. Your anoraks/trainspotters/”experts”/killjoys will try to convince you that little after the end of the 60s is worth listening to, but like everyone else, they are wrong from time to time.

When they do that, they forget that Northern Soul was once a vibrant, living, breathing scene, and above all a dancer’s scene and if a record brought people out onto the floor, that’s all that mattered.

Today I bring you two examples of records that were created for disco dance floors and were absorbed into the Northern Soul scene.

The first, ‘Are You Ready For This’ by the Brothers is a solid, four on the floor dancer with the kind of sweeping, melodic string flourished that the soulies really dug.

The Brothers were a New York based studio creation, built around producer Warren Schatz and pianist Bhen Lanzaroni. Their 1975 LP ‘Disco-Soul’ was composed almost entirely of new versions of disco standards by groups like the Ohio Players (the LP features a very cool Hammond driven cover of ‘Fire’), Barry White, Disco Tex, Carol Douglas, and Gloria Gaynor, interspersed with originals by Lanzaroni and Schatz.

‘Are You Ready For This’ was released as a single in the US and the UK, and was picked up by UK DJs where it became a staple at clubs like the Blackpool Mecca (it also seems to have been a minor hit in New York City discos).

The second track I bring you today is ‘Spring Rain’ by Silvetti. Juan Fernando Silvetti Adorno, aka Bebu Silvetti, or just Silvetti, was an Argentinian composer/arranger/producer who had his biggest hit with ‘Spring Rain’ in 1977.

The record was a big hit in US and European discos, but was also brought into the Northern scene (to the consternation of many) by disco-friendly DJs like Ian Levine. Like ‘Are You Ready For This’, ‘Spring Rain’ has a strong beat, and wave upon wave of strings.

As time wore on, and new sounds became popular, and the idea of ‘soul music’ became more expansive – I hesitate to say ‘inclusive’ since there were/are many who would just as soon strangle you than hear a disco record – new terminology was adopted that allowed collectors and DJs to compartmentalize these records into their own genres, like ‘modern soul’, ‘deep funk’, ‘rare groove’ and ‘crossover’. Often times you’ll see announcements for allnighters and weekends in the UK and Europe where these tangential sounds will have separate rooms/dance floors devoted to them.

If you have an open mind policy (like we do here) it’s not at all hard to see the threads that link all of these categories, and to find your way back through their roots, stopping to savor the vast array of records that resist classification (often my favorite kind).

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

Keep the faith

Larry

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By Larry, November 6, 2014 12:53 pm

Volcanos – Storm Warning (Arctic)
Homer Banks – A Lot of Love (Minit)
The Supremes – Love Is Like An Itching In My Heart (Motown)
The Four Larks – Groovin’ at the Go Go (Tower)
Maurice and the Radiants – Baby You’ve Got It (Chess)
OV Wright – Love the Way You Love (Back Beat)
The Spellbinders – Help Me (Get Myself Back Together Again) (Columbia)
Otis Clay – Got To Find a Way (One-Derful)
Mary Love – Lay This Burden Down (Modern)
Irma Thomas – What Are You Trying To Do (Imperial)
Bonnie and Lee – The Way I Feel About You (Fairmount)
The Marvelettes – I’ll Keep On Holding On (Tamla)
The Broadways – You Just Don’t Know How Good You Make Me Feel (MGM)
Darrell Banks – Our Love Is In the Pocket (Revilot)
The Facinations – Girls Are Out To Get You (Mayfield)
Barbara Banks – River of Tears (Veep)
The Cooperettes – Shingaling (Brunswick)
The Exciters – Blowing Up My Mind (RCA)
The Olympics – Mine Exclusively (Mirwood)
The Shirelles – Last Minute Miracle (Scepter)
Eddie Holman – Eddie’s My Name (Cameo/Parkway)
The Younghearts – A Little Togetherness (Soultown)
Jean Wells- With My Love and What You’ve Got (Calla)
Dean Parrish – I’m On My Way (Laurie)

Listen/Download Funky16Corners 10th Anniversary Pt5 – Northern Soul

Greetings all

The end of the week, and of the Funky16Corners 10th Anniversary celebration are both at hand.

I should remind you that the Funky16Corners Radio Show takes to the airwaves of the interwebs this and every Friday night on Viva Radio. You can also subscribe to the show as a podcast in iTunes, listen on your mobile device on the TuneIn app, or grab yourself an MP3 here at the blog.

The mix I chose to close out the week is near and dear to my heart.

Over the course of my soul fandom, stretching back 30 years, no sound has hit me as deeply as Northern Soul.

I’m not going to go into the roots of the sound here (I have in the past, to be sure), or provide a definition, other than to say these are records that combine hard-charging tempos and great melodies in uniquely exhilarating ways.

One need only listen to the mix all the way through to get the picture, as it were, but I suspect that even then, there are those that might take issue with some of the selections.

Northern Soul is a lot of things to a lot of people, and I approach the sound as someone who genuinely loves it.

Some of my very favorite soul records – in any genre – are key to this mix. These are records that lift you in every way, some crossing over into what can safely be described as pure musical bliss.

This is my favorite genre to listen to, and by far my favorite to spin for dancers as a DJ.

I thought it fitting that this was the mix to cap off the anniversary week.

I hope you dig it, and I hope you keep listening/reading as long as I still have something meaningful to say.

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Also, I had some groovy anniversary bumper stickers made, and they’re free to anyone that sends a self-addressed #10 envelope. I’ll cover the postage.

Send your sticker requests to:
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I’ll see you all next week.

And, as always…

Keep the faith

Larry

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By Larry, September 16, 2014 11:03 am

Bob Brady and the Con Chords

Listen/Download Bob Brady and the Con Chords – Everybody’s Goin’ To the Love In

Greetings all

The tune I have selected to start out the week is a long time favorite, party-starter and dance floor annihilator.

Possessed of one of the great blue eyed soul voices of the classic era (though it was largely ‘borrowed’ from Mr. William Robinson of Detroit, MI…) Bob Brady led the Con Chords through a half-dozen stellar 45s on the Chariot label between 1967 and 1969.

Based in the Baltimore, MD area (check out my interview with Con Chords trombonist Larry Sprigg in the old F16C web zine), the Con Chords were popular up and down the East Coast, having their biggest success with 1967’s ‘More More More of Your Love’ which was a big regional hit in Philadelphia.

The record you see before you today was a minor local hit in 1968.

‘Everybody’s Goin’ To the Love In’ – co-written by Brady and Con Chords keyboard player Jim Samuel – is an absolutely brilliant 45, that is guaranteed to set any dance floor on fire (thus its popularity with the Northern Soul folks).

Opening deceptively quietly, with a muted trumpet and piano, it soon builds up to an explosive, pounding opening (dig those piano chords), followed by Brady’s trademark falsetto vocal.

The lyrics are all 1968-heavy peace and love (‘Everybody’s going to see the guru!’) but the arrangement is solid soul, and the record builds the excitement over and over again.

I LOVE this 45 and have played it out many a time.

I hope you dig it as much as I do.

Have a great weekend and I’ll see you all on Wednesday.

Keep the faith

Larry

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By Larry, August 21, 2014 4:01 pm

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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By Larry, August 12, 2014 12:58 pm

Darrow Fletcher

Listen/Download Darrow Fletcher – The Pain Gets a Little Deeper

Greetings all

Here we all are, knee-deep in the middle of the week.

What better, then, than some refreshing, upbeat Chicago soul?

Darrow Fletcher’s debut 45, 1966’s ‘The Pain Gets a Little Deeper’ is one of those records that I chased after for quite a while before I finally landed one for my play box.

It’s not a crazy expensive 45, but it is popular and in demand, so you kind of have to fight a little bit to put your hands on one.

It’s also quite good.

Recorded when Fletcher was 14 years old (?!?), and co-written by the singer, ‘The Pain Gets a Little Deeper’ is a snappy bit of dance floor soul, with a superb, raspy vocal and a very tasty horn arrangement.

The record was produced by Fletcher’s stepfather Johnny Haygood, and grazed the R&B Top 20 in January of 1966.

Fletcher recorded 18 singles between 1966 and 1978 for labels like Groovy, Jacklyn, Revue, Congress, UNI and ATCO.

He had two more minor R&B hits in 1970, and 1976, but never got any higher than his debut despite the consistent high quality of his material.

There’s a great Kent comp of his 1966-1971 records called ‘The Pain Gets a Little Deeper’ which can be had on CD or through iTunes.

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

Keep the faith

Larry

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By Larry, August 3, 2014 12:08 pm

Future Congressman Salvatore ‘Sonny’ Bono

Listen/Download Cookie Jackson – Uptown Jerk

Listen/Download BJ and the Profits – It’s Gonna Rain Outside

Greetings all

I thought we’d start the new week with something very groovy, and a little bit unusual.

If you follow Funky16Corners, you probably wouldn’t expect to see the name Sonny Bono pop up, but then again, to paraphrase an old Monty Python bit, ‘No one expects Sonny Bono!’

The cause for this appearance is – however – 100% soul 45 related, so rest easy.

The story starts many years ago when I fell in love with what is still my favorite New Orleans soul instrumental, Gentleman June Gardner’s ‘It’s Gonna Rain’.

If you’re not familiar, take a peek in the Funky16Corners mix and Radio Show archives, since it pops up in both more than once.

It is a swinging bit of dance floor heat, and for tha reason, sweated hard in 45 form by DJ types.

Though I can’t recall the exact interval, it was a little while before I discovered that the song was in fact a cover of a Sonny and Cher tune (?!?), which had appeared on the B-side of their hit ‘I Got You Babe’.

The groovy thing is, the Sonny and Cher OG is a KILLER record, working kind of a garage/soul-a-go-go thing.

The song became a fave of mine, so much so that when I saw that it had been covered by a group called BJ and the Profits, I snapped it up post haste.

What I discovered when I finally got my hands on it, was that it was produced by Mr. Bono (no slouch in that department) and, when I heard it, that ole Salvatore actually sings on it too!

As you’ll hear when you pull down the ones and zeros, the BJ and the Profits version is very cool indeed.

Using a new backing track, with what sounds like either a sitar or fuzz guitar, the lead vocal is taken by ‘BJ’, who unfortunately remains a mystery.

Despite the fact that Sonny was involved, and the record pops up in S&C discographies, I haven’t been able to track down the identity of the singer.

The flipside, ‘I Lost All Faith In You’ is a hard-edged number with a rolling New Orleans rhythm.

The second record we have today – also credited to York-Pala Productions, in fact Sonny & Cher’s managers Charlie Green and Brian Stone) is Cookie Jackson’s ‘Uptown Jerk’.

The very first record released on Capitol Records Uptown subsidiary (both of these records are from 1965), ‘Uptown Jerk’, is an upbeat dancer that has its fair share of fans on the Northern scene.

Lorraine ‘Cookie’ Jackson is a much better known performer, having recorded 10 45s between 1961 and 1970 for labels like Press, Uptown, Okeh and Kris.

The flipside, ‘(I’m Gonna) Go Shout It On the Mountain’ is a thinly disguised reworking of the old gospel tune ‘Go Tell It On the Mountain’.

As far as I can tell, though Sonny Bono did a fair amount of outside songwriting and production (he was an acolyte of Phil Spector’s) these are the only soul 45s he had anything to do with. They were released months apart in 1965 (the first and sixth singles in the Uptown catalog).

They are both cool, and worth picking up when you see them.

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

Keep the faith

Larry

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By Larry, July 22, 2014 12:50 pm

Ike and Tina Turner

Listen/Download Ike and Tina Turner – Somebody Needs You

Greetings all

I hope the middle of the week finds you all well.

The song I bring you today is one of those anomalies that piques my curiosity and sends me off on a search.

A while back I was listening to the two volumes of the Ike and Tina Turner Revue recorded live, released in 1965 on Loma and Warner Brothers.

If you get a chance to pick up either volume, they are both outstanding, presenting the group in fine form delivering a wide variety of material, including great covers of songs by the Impressions, Etta James, the Soul Sisters, the Five Dutones and more.

The one track (on Volume 2) that stuck out like a sore thumb was ‘Somebody (Somewhere) Needs You’.

Clearly a studio track with audience overdubs (where every other track was live), the song was also a stylistic departure.

Whereas Ike and Tina and the Ikettes always had a harder, R&B inflected edge to their recordings, ‘Somebody (Somewhere) Needs You’ was stylish, Detroit-style Northern Soul.

I hit the reference books and discovered that the song had been released as a single in 1965, and that it was fairly scarce, and a little bit expensive.

It took me a little while, but I finally tracked down a copy.

Even a single listen should be enough to convince you that ‘Somebody Needs You’ (as the track is listed on the Loma 45) is unlike anything else in the Ike and Tina discography.

As it turns out, the song has an interesting history.

Written by Frank Wilson (the man that brought you ‘Do I Love You (Indeed I Do)’), ‘Somebody (Somewhere) Needs You’ was also recorded by Darrell Banks (Revilot 1966).

The backing track from the Ike and Tina version was recycled several times.

First as Larry Laster’s ‘Go For Yourself’ (with new lyrics by, and credited to Leon Sylvers) on Loma in 1966, a year later by Herb and Doris on the HIP label, as ‘Lighten Up’ by Larry Atkins on the Highland label, and by Ty Karim as ‘Lighten Up Baby’ on Car-A-Mel!

Interestingly enough, the Darrell Banks recording uses a completely different track/arrangement.

It’s an amazing record, and a real departure for Ike and Tina. It leaves me wishing that they’d done more like it.

I hope you dig it too, and I’ll see you on Friday.

Keep the faith

Larry

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By Larry, July 8, 2014 1:19 pm

The Olympics

Listen/Download The Olympics – Mine Exclusively

Greetings all

The mid-week doldrums were creeping up on me, so I felt the need for some hard-charging Northern Soul.

The mighty Olympics were one of those lucky groups to straddle the eras of 50s R&B and 60s soul.

They had their first string of hits from 1958 to 1960 with tunes like ‘Western Movies’, ‘Big Boy Pete’ and ‘Baby (Hully Gully)’, all working a Coasters-type groove.

They continued to record for labels like Tri-Disc and Loma (where they waxed the original version of ‘Good Lovin’ in 1965) eventually landing at the storied LA soul label Mirwood.

It was with Mirwood that they would place two records in the R&B Top 30 in 1966, one of which is he record you see before you today, ‘Mine Exclusively’.

Co-written by Bob Relf and Sherlie Matthews, ‘Mine Exclusively’ is one of the finest soul dancers to come out of Los Angeles in the 60s.

Oddly enough, I first encountered the song in a long-lost 1988 film called ‘The In Crowd’.

The story of Philadelphia teens from opposite sides of the tracks meeting on a dance party show (with a host that bore an uncanny resemblance to Jerry ‘The Geator’ Blavat*).

The flick has lots of high energy dance scenes, and a surprisingly good soundtrack, featuring the Olympics, Tina Britt, the Marvelows, Five Du-Tones, Dobie Gray (of course), Wilson Pickett and more.

It’s a lot of fun, but doesn’t turn up much these days. It was never released on DVD and doesn’t make it onto TV too often.

That said, ‘Mine Exclusively’ opens with a powerful drum/handclaps combo and never lets up until the needle hits the run out groove. It’s a fine example of the kind of top notch records that Fred Smith and James Carmichael were making for Mirwood at the time.

I pick up Mirwood 45s wherever I find them, but if you’re not a wax-hound, you can grab the two excellent volumes of the The Mirwood Soul Story on CD or on iTunes. You will not be disappointed.

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

Keep the faith

Larry

*A resemblance so close that it was rumored to have resulted in legal action….

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By Larry, June 26, 2014 4:22 pm

Theresa Lindsey

Listen/Download Theresa Lindsey – Daddy-O

Listen/Download Theresa Lindsey – I’ll Bet You

Greetings all

The weekend is looming, so I’ll remind you that the Funky16Corners Radio Show takes to the airwaves of the interwebs this and every Friday night at 9PM on Viva Radio. You can also partake in the soulfulness by subscribing to the show as a podcast in iTunes, or by grabbing an MP3 at the blog.

I’ve been wanting to drop today’s selection for a long time, but I wanted to wait until I was in the exactly right frame of mind.

A while back I was listening to Gail Smith’s most excellent ‘Work Your Soul’ podcast, when I encountered a song that shot right to all the soul-related pleasure centers of my brain. A quick glance at the playlist indicated that what I was digging was a tune called ‘Daddy-O’ by Theresa Lindsey.

Her name was already familiar as a Detroit-based singer who had recorded the original version of ‘I’ll Bet You’, which she co-wrote with George Clinton and Sidney Barnes (and was later recorded by Funkadelic, Billy Butler, Jean Carter and the Jackson Five).

What I discovered in short order (as soon as I set out in search of my own copy) was that ‘Daddy-O’ was the flipside of ‘I’ll Bet You’! Now I really had to get a copy!

Once I did (at what I would consider to be not too extreme an expense), I digimatized the 45 and played it over, and over and over again.

You see, ‘Daddy-O’ is one of the most sublime examples of the art form known as Detroit Soul that was ever created.

What you get here is a solid dancer’s beat, combined with a beautiful melody, a tight Detroit band and above all, the sexy, soulful delivery of Miss Theresa Lindsey.

This record is as close to perfect as it gets, my friends.

Opening with piano (the piano is really the heart of the band on this one), and then picking up with drums, vibes, bass and hand-claps, ‘Daddy-O’ is a showcase for Lindsey’s voice and the subtle backing vocals. There is no point where the essence of this record diverges from sublime wonderfulness, which makes it all the more surprising that it wasn’t a hit.

‘I’ll Bet You’ is taken at a brisk pace (much like the Billy Butler take from the following year) and features some tasty Dennis Coffey guitar licks.

Despite her obvious talents, Theresa Lindsey’s only chart success was a regional hit with her 1964 ‘Gotta Find a Way’ for the Correc-tone label.

Lindsey recorded a total of five singles, three for Correc-Tone, the one you see before you for Golden World, and then a UK-only release (recorded in New York) for the President label as ‘Terry Lindsey’.

Both sides of this 45 and some of her Correc-Tone recordings have been comped over the years, with both ‘Daddy-O’ and ‘I’ll Bet You’ currently available in iTunes (on a couple of shifty-looking comps).

That said, you can pull down the ones and zeros here, and bathe your ears in the goodness.

Have yourselves a great weekend, and I’ll see you all on Monday.

Keep the faith

Larry

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By Larry, June 22, 2014 1:49 pm

Funky16Corners: The New Breed
Homer Banks – A Lot of Love (Minit)
Robert Parker – Secret Service (Makes Me Nervous) (Nola)
Clyde McPhatter – A Shot of Rhythm and Blues (Amy)
Delores Hall – Good Lovin’ Man (Keymen)
Dusty Springfield – Can I Get a Witness (Philips)
Fabulous Emotions – Number One Fool (Tamboo)
JJ Barnes – Real Humdinger (Ric Tic)
Jackie Wilson – I’ve Lost You (Brunswick)
Linda Jones – You Can’t Take It (Loma)
Marvelettes – Danger Heartbreak Dead Ahead (Tamla)
Madeline Bell – Picture Me Gone (Philips)
Ron Moody and the Centaurs – The New Breed (Columbia)
Al Greene and the Soul Mates – Don’t Leave Me (Hot Line Music Journal)
Betty Harris – Mean Man (Sansu)
Theresa Lindsey – I’ll Bet You (Golden World)
Vibrations – Soul a Go Go (Okeh)
Bobby Sockers – Sock It To Me Bobby (RCA)
Jimmy Holiday – Love Me One More Time (Diplomacy)
The Soul Finders – Sweet Soul Music (Camden)
The Monitors – Number One In Your Heart (VIP)
Glories – (I Love You Babe But) Give Me My Freedom (Date)
Mamie Galore – It Ain’t Necessary (St Lawrence)
ZZ Hill – Don’t Make Promises (Kent)
Soul Brothers Six – Thank You Baby For Loving Me (Atlantic)

Listen/Download Funky16Corners Presents: Funky16Corners: The New Breed!

NOTE: Today’s mix is the final entry in the Funky16Corners 2014 Allnighter/Pledge Drive, and as is always the case, it’s yours truly, the proprietor batting clean-up.

Funky16Corners: The New Breed represents the best dance floor soul that has dropped into my record box in the last several months.

There are some real killers here, and you will certainly see many of them (and their stories) featured on the blog in the coming year.

Once again, I’d like to thank all the selectors for their mixes, and all of you readers/listeners for coming by to check it out, and helping to keep Funky16Corners up and running!

I’ll be back on Wednesday with the regular stuff, so stay tuned!

Larry

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Contest!

Anyone that donates today to the Allnighter/Pledge Drive will (in addition to getting the badge and stickers) be entered into a random drawing for a copy of the Fantastic Voyage 2-CD collection ‘Soul City Los Angeles’, a compilation of West Coast soul from labels like Arvee, Alladin, Liberty, Imperial, Ebb and SAR!
This is the final drawing for the Funky16Corners 2014 Allnighter/Pledge Drive!

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The winner of the Fantastic Voyage ‘Youths Boogie’ 2-CD comp is Rebecca Pang!
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Greetings all

Welcome to the 2014 edition of the Funky16Corners Allnighter/Pledge Drive.

This is the ninth annual Pledge Drive, and the fifth Allnighter.

If you haven’t experienced the Allnighter/Pledge Drive, it can be explained as thus: once a year, the Funky16Corners Blog, your home for the best in funk, soul, jazz and rare groove vinyl for almost 10 years comes to you with hand outstretched, asking for donations to offset the operating expenses of the web site.

The Funky16Corners ‘operation’ (as it is) included the Funky16Corners and Iron Leg blogs, the mix archives for both (containing well over 200 mixes), and the Funky16Corners Radio Show/Podcast (another 200+ files available for download, or through subscription in iTunes).

The money raised during the pledge drive goes to pay for the server space and fees associated with hosting the whole megillah.

As has been attested to many times in the past, Funky16Corners has humble beginnings, starting out on the old (free) Blogger service, moving to WordPress, and then to self-hosted WordPress. The move to paid hosting was necessitated by increased bandwidth usage, as well as the need for a place to store all the mixes (and eventually the radio show episodes).

The Allnighter/Pledge Drive is a once-yearly occurrence, in which yours truly, and some of the finest selectors out there whip up new mixes for your delectation.

In past years, I have posted all of the mixes in a single post, and left it up for a week.

This year, the quality and quantity of the mixes spurred me on to try something a little different, i.e. posting a new mix each weekday for a period of just over two weeks. This way, each selector gets their moment in the spotlight, and the mixes get spaced out so that the listeners don’t suffer from mix-fatigue.

Each day, you’ll get a fantastic mix (there really are some amazing ones this year) from one of my favorite DJs, many of whom have participated in the Allnighter before, as well as a couple of great new contributors.

So, if you dig what we do here at Funky16Corners, click on the Paypal link and toss some cash into the barrel.

Contributors will receive a 2014 Allnighter badge, as well as some stickers from the archive (as long as they last).

This year I will also be drawing the names of contributors at random for groovy swag, including CDs and 45s from Cultures of Soul, and CDs from Light in the Attic and Secret Stash.

So, dig the sounds for the next couple of weeks, and make sure you stop back on a daily basis to pick up new mixes and contribute for a chance to win some cool stuff.

Thanks, and as always,

Keep the faith

Larry

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Also, the brand new Funky16Corners ‘Keep Calm and Stay Funky’ stickers have arrived! The stickers are 4″ x 3″ and printed on high quality, glossy stock. They are $2.00 each, with free shipping in the US ($2.00 per order shipping outside of the US). Click here to go to the ordering page.

Also, make sure that you check out the links below to the Be The Match Foundation and POAC (click on the logos for more info).

PS Head over to Iron Leg too.

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By Larry, June 10, 2014 11:20 am

Tony C – On the Soul Side
Toussaint McCall Baby You Got it- Ronn
Cash McCall I’m In Danger Checker
Garnet Mimms Prove it– United Artists
Jackie Ross Dynamite Lovin’- Chess
Radiants Please Don’t leave me Chess
Mitty Collier Help Me- Chess
Patti Drew Sufferer- Capitol
Tina Britt Who Was That- Veep
Lord Luther Tough- Lusan
Billy Mack Too Much- Philips
Johnny Sayles The Concentration- Chi Town
Emanuel Lasky Don’t Lead Me On Baby- Thelma
The Sharpees Make Up Your Mind- One-derful
D C Ramblers Hangin’ In There- Keynote
Gunga Din Crabcakes- Valise
Sonny Shankle Just Enough- Watts Way
Thelma Jones Mr Fixit- Barry
Betty Everett Too Hot To Hold-Vee Jay
Danny White Miss Fine Fine Fine-Frisco
Willie Small How High Can You Fly-Jessica
Dee Dee Warwick House Of Gold-Mercury
Otis Clay Show Place-One-derful
Buddy Lamp My Tears-Double L
Jimmy Nelson Tell Me Who-Chess
Willie Mays If You Love Me- Duke
Harold Burrage I’ll Take One-M.Pac!
Big Jay Bush Dynamite-Redbug

Listen/Download Funky16Corners Presents: Tony C – On the Soul Side

NOTE: Today’s mix is this year’s contribution from the fantastic Tony C.
Mr Crampton is – like every other selector participating in this year’s Allnighter a man of exquisite taste, and as a result, an influence on yours truly.
Tony always brings a solid selection of tracks to his Allnighter mixes, and as always, I come away with some additions to my want list.
‘On the Soul Side’ is a hard-hitting hour of classic-era soul that’ll have you out of your seat moving and grooving.
I hope you dig it as much as I do.
See you tomorrow,
Larry

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Contest!

Anyone that donates today to the Allnighter/Pledge Drive will (in addition to getting the badge and stickers) be entered into a random drawing for a copy of the fantastic new Lugnutbrand Records single ‘Number One’ b/w ‘Bikes’ by the M-Tet!

‘Number One’ brings to mind the sunny side of Booker T and the MGs with just a taste of UK Library-style goodness, brought to you by organist Gary Pitman. ‘Bikes’ digs in slow and funky, with some heavy guitar by Joe Magnant. The production by bassist Chris Lujan is spot on.

The M-Tet brings the old-school heat in a new-school package.

This is a very groovy 45 indeed (I got my own copy by contributing to the band’s Kickstarter) and you can expect to hear it on future episodes of the Funky16Corners Radio Show.

There will be more drawings over the next few weeks for CDs by Cultures of Soul, Light In the Attic and Secret Stash, and 45s from Cultures of Soul!

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The winner of yesterday’s drawing for the ‘DJ Andy Smith’s Jam Up Twist’ CD is David Wykoff!

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Greetings all

Welcome to the 2014 edition of the Funky16Corners Allnighter/Pledge Drive.

This is the ninth annual Pledge Drive, and the fifth Allnighter.

If you haven’t experienced the Allnighter/Pledge Drive, it can be explained as thus: once a year, the Funky16Corners Blog, your home for the best in funk, soul, jazz and rare groove vinyl for almost 10 years comes to you with hand outstretched, asking for donations to offset the operating expenses of the web site.

The Funky16Corners ‘operation’ (as it is) included the Funky16Corners and Iron Leg blogs, the mix archives for both (containing well over 200 mixes), and the Funky16Corners Radio Show/Podcast (another 200+ files available for download, or through subscription in iTunes).

The money raised during the pledge drive goes to pay for the server space and fees associated with hosting the whole megillah.

As has been attested to many times in the past, Funky16Corners has humble beginnings, starting out on the old (free) Blogger service, moving to WordPress, and then to self-hosted WordPress. The move to paid hosting was necessitated by increased bandwidth usage, as well as the need for a place to store all the mixes (and eventually the radio show episodes).

The Allnighter/Pledge Drive is a once-yearly occurrence, in which yours truly, and some of the finest selectors out there whip up new mixes for your delectation.

In past years, I have posted all of the mixes in a single post, and left it up for a week.

This year, the quality and quantity of the mixes spurred me on to try something a little different, i.e. posting a new mix each weekday for a period of just over two weeks. This way, each selector gets their moment in the spotlight, and the mixes get spaced out so that the listeners don’t suffer from mix-fatigue.

Each day, you’ll get a fantastic mix (there really are some amazing ones this year) from one of my favorite DJs, many of whom have participated in the Allnighter before, as well as a couple of great new contributors.

So, if you dig what we do here at Funky16Corners, click on the Paypal link and toss some cash into the barrel.

Contributors will receive a 2014 Allnighter badge, as well as some stickers from the archive (as long as they last).

This year I will also be drawing the names of contributors at random for groovy swag, including CDs and 45s from Cultures of Soul, and CDs from Light in the Attic and Secret Stash.

So, dig the sounds for the next couple of weeks, and make sure you stop back on a daily basis to pick up new mixes and contribute for a chance to win some cool stuff.

Thanks, and as always,

Keep the faith

Larry

_________________________________________________________________________________________

Also, the brand new Funky16Corners ‘Keep Calm and Stay Funky’ stickers have arrived! The stickers are 4″ x 3″ and printed on high quality, glossy stock. They are $2.00 each, with free shipping in the US ($2.00 per order shipping outside of the US). Click here to go to the ordering page.

Also, make sure that you check out the links below to the Be The Match Foundation and POAC (click on the logos for more info).

PS Head over to Iron Leg too.