{"id":1274,"date":"2011-02-06T15:48:56","date_gmt":"2011-02-06T20:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funky16corners.lunarpages.net\/?p=1274"},"modified":"2013-05-19T19:47:21","modified_gmt":"2013-05-20T00:47:21","slug":"eddie-and-the-de-havilons-baby-dumplins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=1274","title":{"rendered":"Eddie and the De-Havilons – Baby Dumplins"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Eddie Silvers<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Listen\/Download – Eddie and the De-Havelons – Baby Dumplins <\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/del><\/p>\n

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

It\u2019s time to get another week rolling here at the Funky16Corners <\/strong>blog, and what better way to do so than with a swinging, greasy organ instrumental?<\/p>\n

The tune I bring you today is a little something I grabbed when I was down in DC last year.<\/p>\n

When I happened upon \u2018Baby Dumplins\u2019 by Eddie and the De-Havelons<\/strong>, the name(s) rang a distant bell, but I couldn\u2019t possibly pass up a 45 with names like that on the label.<\/p>\n

When I got the record home and gave it a spin I was happy to discover a hot, fast moving organ instro with wailing sax, i.e. a solid party record.<\/p>\n

When I sat down to try and track down some info on the record, it was a little harder than I anticipated.
\nCertainly a unique name like \u2018Eddie and the De-Havelons\u2019 narrowed down the search results, but I don\u2019t think I was prepared for the remaining info to be quite so narrow.<\/p>\n

It was only after I started to search using the name of the song\u2019s author, \u2018Eddie Silvers\u2019<\/strong> that I had a breakthrough.<\/p>\n

Eddie Silvers was a Chicago-based saxophonist and arranger who was the musical director at the storied One-Derful label during the mid 60s. He had previously worked with the likes of Fats Domino<\/strong> and Bill Doggett <\/strong>before being hired by the notorious Don Robey<\/strong> to work as an A&R man for the Duke\/Peacock organization.<\/p>\n

During the 60s, Silvers recorded with a few different groups, including the Five G\u2019s<\/strong> (for UA) and the Soul Merchants <\/strong>(for the Stax subsidiary Weis records), and I going to take an educated guess that it\u2019s him playing sax on \u2018Baby Dumplins\u2019 by Eddie and the Dehavelons.<\/p>\n

The tune \u2013 which was released in 1963 \u2013 featured some burning organ, hot sax solos and something that I first thought was a fuzz guitar, but is probably a baritone sax dropping bombs all the way through the record.<\/p>\n

\u2018Baby Dumplins\u2019 is one of those organ instros that manages to have quite a bit of soul, while keeping enough of a crossover feel to appeal to the twisters feeding nickels into the jukeboxes of America.<\/p>\n

As far as I can tell this is the only 45 recorded under this name (certainly the only one they did for Peacock).<\/p>\n

I hope you dig it, and I\u2019ll be back on Wednesday with something cool.<\/p>\n

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

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

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Eddie Silvers   Listen\/Download – Eddie and the De-Havelons – Baby Dumplins   Greetings all. It\u2019s time to get another week rolling here at the Funky16Corners blog, and what better way to do so than with a swinging, greasy organ instrumental? The tune I bring you today is a little something I grabbed when I […]<\/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":[14,68,66,64,12,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funky16corners","category-hammond-grooves","category-instrumental","category-rb","category-soul","category-soul-45"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pMKgo-ky","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274","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=1274"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3890,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274\/revisions\/3890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}