{"id":1156,"date":"2010-12-21T12:19:47","date_gmt":"2010-12-21T17:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funky16corners.lunarpages.net\/?p=1156"},"modified":"2015-02-04T16:44:20","modified_gmt":"2015-02-04T21:44:20","slug":"f16-christmas-james-brown-its-christmas-time-pt1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=1156","title":{"rendered":"F16 Christmas – James Brown – It’s Christmas Time Pt1"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Merry Christmas, Godfather! <\/strong><\/p>\n

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Listen\/Download – James Brown – It’s Christmas Time Pt1 <\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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

I hope everyone that is in the Christmas groove, is ready for the holiday.<\/p>\n

It behooves me to mention that if you find yourself snuggled up in front of a roaring internet this Friday night at 9PM, you might tune in to Viva Radio<\/strong><\/a> and dig the Funky16Corners Radio Christmas Special<\/strong>, featuring an hour of the finest funk and soul in the holiday spirit.<\/p>\n

The tune I bring you today is fitting for a couple of reasons.<\/p>\n

I remember the Christmas day for years ago when I heard that the mighty James Brown<\/strong> had that very morning slipped the surly bonds of earth and passed on into the great, funky beyond.<\/p>\n

James Brown was a towering figure in the history of soul music, and especially important (so much so as to have been indispensable) in the development of funk.<\/p>\n

Funky16Corners marked his passing then<\/a>, and we do so again this year with one of the more mellow, sentimental numbers from his catalog.<\/p>\n

\u2018It\u2019s Christmas Time Pt1\u2019 was released in 1969, and is notable for its subdued, almost hymn-like vibe.
\nRecorded at the peak of his funky powers, the song sees the Godfather of Soul working in a ballad style, backed only by guitar, bass, organ and the sparest of drums.<\/p>\n

So much holiday funk and soul is in an upbeat, often humorous style, it\u2019s nice to hear one of the giants take it at a mellow pace.<\/p>\n

I hope you dig it, raise a glass of egg-nog in memory of Soul Brother Number One, and that you all have a great Christmas weekend.<\/p>\n

I’m taking the rest of the week off to be festive, but I\u2019ll be back next week with a year-end wrap up mix.<\/p>\n

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

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


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Merry Christmas, Godfather! Listen\/Download – James Brown – It’s Christmas Time Pt1 Greetings all. I hope everyone that is in the Christmas groove, is ready for the holiday. It behooves me to mention that if you find yourself snuggled up in front of a roaring internet this Friday night at 9PM, you might tune in […]<\/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":[14,55,77,12,18],"tags":[180,166,164],"class_list":["post-1156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funky16corners","category-funky16cornersviva-internet-radio","category-james-brown","category-soul","category-soul-45","tag-christmas","tag-funky16corners","tag-soul"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pMKgo-iE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1156","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=1156"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5484,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1156\/revisions\/5484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}