{"id":1198,"date":"2011-01-11T15:56:30","date_gmt":"2011-01-11T20:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funky16corners.lunarpages.net\/?p=1198"},"modified":"2015-02-04T16:49:30","modified_gmt":"2015-02-04T21:49:30","slug":"quincy-jones-money-runner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=1198","title":{"rendered":"Quincy Jones – Money Runner"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Listen\/Download – Quincy Jones – Money Runner <\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/del><\/p>\n

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

The middle of the week is here, and while I should be exhausted, I am oddly energized. I suspect a serious crash is on the way, but I’m gonna keep plowing ahead until it arrives.<\/p>\n

You see, I was out last night spinning 45s at Spindletop @ Botanica<\/strong> in NYC and did not arrive home until well past my normal hour for commencement of slumber. However, since I got to spin 45s for nearly three straight hours to a very groovy and appreciative crowd (special thanks to the Funky16Corners<\/strong> readers who came by!) and I had a blast.<\/p>\n

Botanica is very cool spot (home base for no less than the mighty Mr Finewine<\/strong>!), and my man Perry Lane<\/strong> has a very cool thing going with Spindletop.<\/p>\n

I’ve rattled on in this space a few times about how I like stepping outside of my DJ comfort zone to stretch a little, and last night was the perfect opportunity. Spindletop is all about Hammond grooves and soul\/Mod jazz with just a touch of international flavour, and I spent a lot of time and care pulling records and formulating my sets.<\/p>\n

The only downer of the night was that we were unable to negotiate a line out of the mixer to my digital recorder, so I was unable to do a live recording. However, as I type this I am spinning the identical stuff and mixing it live here in the Funky16Corners Record Vault and Podcasting Nerve Center<\/em> so that you can check it out.<\/p>\n

Right now I plan on doing only the early set, which was a mellow affair, which I’ll drop on Friday, along with a full set list of the night (60 45s!).<\/p>\n

I’ll be back in NYC on February 4th at After the Laughter Soul Club<\/strong> at Lulus, 113 Franklin St in Greenpoint (Brooklyn) and I’ll be returning to Spindletop<\/strong> February 21st, so if you like what you hear, head on over.<\/p>\n

When we last discussed the mighty Quincy Jones,<\/strong> it was almost a year ago and his groovy theme to the Ironside TV show.<\/a><\/p>\n

The tune I bring you today is another theme, but sees Le Q<\/strong> jumping from the small screen to the silver one.<\/p>\n

The tune in question, \u2018Money Runner\u2019 appeared in the 1971 film \u2018$\u2019 (often listed, for obvious reasons as \u2018DOLLAR$\u2019).<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2018Money Runner\u2019 was released as a 45 in 1972 and actually hit the charts, working its way into the R&B Top 50 and hovering just outside of the same listing on the Pop side of things.<\/p>\n

The only other tune I\u2019ve heard from the soundtrack is Little Richard\u2019s<\/strong> \u2018Money Is\u2019*, which is cool, on account of it\u2019s Mr. Penniman<\/strong>, but if you want something funky, \u2018Money Runner\u2019 is the way to go.<\/p>\n

The soundtrack album features a grip of West Coast jazz\/studio cats, but the group also included Billy Preston, Paul Humphrey<\/strong> and David T Walker<\/strong>, so it probably wouldn\u2019t be much of a stretch to attribute some of the funk quotient herein to them.<\/p>\n

\u2018Money Runner\u2019 starts out fast, with what sounds like clavinet and guitar, then electric piano and more guitar (of the wah wah persuasion) before the clavinet moves out in front for most of the song. It sounds like a more aggressive cousin to Isaac Hayes<\/strong> \u2018Theme From Shaft\u2019 (especially the guitar interludes), but goes off in an odd and especially interesting direction in the last minute of the record, with a shift in tempo, the addition of an ominous chorus, and eventually a bizarre shattering sound.<\/p>\n

The tune was covered later the same year by the John Schroeder Orchestra.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I hope you dig the record, and I\u2019ll see you all on Friday.<\/p>\n

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

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


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*There\u2019s another version of this 45 with the Little Richard tune on the A-side
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Quincy Jones Listen\/Download – Quincy Jones – Money Runner Greetings all. The middle of the week is here, and while I should be exhausted, I am oddly energized. I suspect a serious crash is on the way, but I’m gonna keep plowing ahead until it arrives. You see, I was out last night spinning 45s […]<\/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_feature_clip_id":0,"_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":[11,17,14,66,49,12,18,56],"tags":[163,166,164],"class_list":["post-1198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funk","category-funk-45","category-funky16corners","category-instrumental","category-jazz-funk","category-soul","category-soul-45","category-soundtrack","tag-funk","tag-funky16corners","tag-soul"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pMKgo-jk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198","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=1198"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5489,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198\/revisions\/5489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}