{"id":1127,"date":"2010-12-09T14:46:52","date_gmt":"2010-12-09T19:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funky16corners.lunarpages.net\/?p=1127"},"modified":"2015-02-04T16:40:29","modified_gmt":"2015-02-04T21:40:29","slug":"young-holt-unlimited-horoscope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=1127","title":{"rendered":"Young-Holt Unlimited – Horoscope"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Listen\/Download – Young-Holt Unlimited – Horoscope <\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Greetings all. <\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

I hope the end of the week finds you well.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been a busy one hereabouts, with the kids, and the errands and Hanukkah ending and Christmas coming and jeebus knows what else<\/em> going on.<\/p>\n

This is the part of Friday\u2019s post where I pause for my regularly scheduled reminder that the Funky16Corners Radio Show<\/strong> will be airing, as is the custom, Friday night at 9PM. There will be some old favorites, a couple of new arrivals and some groovy stuff out of the archives, so if you have your ears pointed at the interwebs this Friday night, make sure to point the browser of your choice at Viva Radio <\/strong>and tune in.<\/a> If you are otherwise occupied, you can always come by the blog over the weekend and pull down the ones and zeros, since every single episode of the Funky16Corners Radio Show is promptly digimatized<\/em> and posted at the blog after it airs.<\/p>\n

I thought I had the whole week planned out, but when I sat down to write today\u2019s post, I had a change of heart, and went back into the to-be-blogged folder to see what tickled my fancy. After some deliberation, I saw that I had no less than three very groovy tracks from the Young-Holt<\/strong> organization waiting to go, all funky, all very groovy.<\/p>\n

This of course opened up a whole new can of worms, since I didn\u2019t want to post all three at the same time. Despite all stories to the contrary, the Funky16Corners record vault is not six stories deep with an endless supply of vinyl, and things need to be parceled out gradually.<\/p>\n

I gave the matter some consideration, and settled upon the 45 you see before you today, Young-Holt Unlimited\u2019s<\/strong> \u2018Horoscope\u2019.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t recall where I came across this disc, or where I first heard it.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s entirely possible that I bought it sight unheard, since I\u2019ve come to the conclusion that Young-Holt are verily the gift that keeps on giving. They were not only prolific, but their catalog \u2013 like the many petals of the lotus \u2013 unfolds to reveal more and more funky 45s at every turn.<\/p>\n

Here you have two journeyman jazz cats – pianist Eldee Young <\/strong>and drummer Isaac Redd Holt<\/strong> – who made their bones with the mighty Ramsey Lewis<\/strong>, with the 1965 hit \u2018The In Crowd\u2019 (currently being used in TV ads in furtherance of the execrable Ashton Kutcher industry). They parlayed it into their own career, eventually hitting the charts with one of the best loved soul instrumentals of the 60s, \u2018Soulful Strut\u2019 (ironically, a record they are rumored not to have actually played on<\/em>).<\/p>\n

Over the course of the next decade they would go on to release ten albums (for Brunswick, Cotillion and Paula) and over a dozen singles, all taking the concept of soul jazz and flipping the formula. The music they would create would prove to be commercial (if not commercially successful) while still substantial, formulaic without being boring and much more soulful than that of a lot of their similarly labeled contemporaries.<\/p>\n

I always find it odd that for a group that was obviously selling a lot of records, Young-Holt Unlimited didn\u2019t really have much in the way of chart success. \u2018Soulful Strut\u2019 was a Pop and R&B hit in 1968, but they would only hit the R&B chart two other times, earlier in 1968 with \u2018Wack Wack\u2019 and barely scraping the Top 50 with \u2018Just a Melody\u2019 n 1969.<\/p>\n

Yet the more I dig, especially into their later Cotillion and Paula periods (1970 to 1975) the more quality stuff I discover.<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s selection hails from 1969, at the very end of their time with the Brunswick label, just before their move to Cotillion.<\/p>\n

\u2018Horoscope\u2019 features funky piano and bright horns, and a shouted run (credited, hysterically as \u2018Narration by Isaac Holt\u2019)<\/em> through the zodiac, hitting on all the signs, ex.Virgo (\u2018The virgin! Ha ha, you gotta be kidding!\u2019<\/em>), as well as timely references to the Age of Aquarius and Hair (\u201cand NO CLOTHES!!\u201d<\/em>).<\/p>\n

The tune was written by Young, Holt and their pianist at the time, Ken Chaney<\/strong> (who replaced Hysear Don Walker<\/strong> when the group morphed from the Young Holt Trio into Young Holt Unlimited).<\/p>\n

They\u2019ve appeared here a bunch of times, with individual tracks and in mixes, as long as I keep digging their stuff they\u2019ll continue to do so.<\/p>\n

I hope you dig the track, and I\u2019ll be back on Monday.<\/p>\n

Peace<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

Larry<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n


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Isaac Redd Holt & Eldee Young Listen\/Download – Young-Holt Unlimited – Horoscope Greetings all. I hope the end of the week finds you well. It\u2019s been a busy one hereabouts, with the kids, and the errands and Hanukkah ending and Christmas coming and jeebus knows what else going on. This is the part of Friday\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11,17,14,55,49,12,18,13],"tags":[163,166,164,165],"class_list":["post-1127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funk","category-funk-45","category-funky16corners","category-funky16cornersviva-internet-radio","category-jazz-funk","category-soul","category-soul-45","category-soul-jazz","tag-funk","tag-funky16corners","tag-soul","tag-soul-jazz"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pMKgo-ib","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1127"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5478,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1127\/revisions\/5478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}