{"id":1284,"date":"2011-02-10T14:46:59","date_gmt":"2011-02-10T19:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funky16corners.lunarpages.net\/?p=1284"},"modified":"2015-02-04T17:00:43","modified_gmt":"2015-02-04T22:00:43","slug":"sam-dees-lonely-for-you-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=1284","title":{"rendered":"Sam Dees – Lonely For You Baby"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sam Dees, truly lonely…<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Listen\/Download – Sam Dees – Lonely For You Baby <\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/del><\/p>\n

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

I’m gonna start things off\u00a0 by telling you that you really should tune in to this week’s Funky16Corners Radio Show, <\/strong>Friday night at 9PM on Viva Radio.<\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/strong>I have concocted an hour’s worth of the hottest soul party 45s, so what you need to do is put on your dancing shoes, tuck into the intoxicant of your choice (if that’s how you roll, since these 45s are so powerful getting oiled up might be interpreted as overkill), roll up the carpet and grab yourself a partner. I guarantee a good time.
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As is always the case, I have something of a story to tell, so I figured I\u2019d close out the week with something interesting (which also happens to be a monumental soul 45).<\/p>\n

Sometime last year a reader sent me a message that the old Funky16Corners organization had been getting props on Sean Rowley\u2019s <\/strong>\u2018Joy of Music\u2019 show on the BBC.<\/p>\n

I tracked that week\u2019s show down, gave it a listen and was pleased when Mr. Rowley had some very kind things to say about the blog.<\/p>\n

That, though, is neither here nor there<\/em>, but it does get us to the point I\u2019m trying to make.<\/p>\n

When I clicked on the link and started to play the show in question, the very first song he played knocked me flat on my ass.<\/p>\n

I gave it a second listen, and then decided that I really ought to keep listening to the show to find out what this record was.<\/p>\n

When Mr. Rowley announced the name Sam Dees<\/strong> and the title \u2018Lonely For You Baby\u2019 I opened up another tab on the browser and set out into the wilds of the interwebs to see if I might procure a copy of this wonderful record for my own.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately I discovered in rather short order that \u2018Lonely For You Baby\u2019 is as rare as it is kick-ass, ranging in price from three to five hundred dollars (sometimes more<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Now I have spent a great deal of money on records over the years, but never that kind of scratch on a single 45 (or dozen 45s for that matter). In fact, I question the sanity of anyone spending five hundred smackers on a single record. Even the most rarified items on my want list ( a couple of soul, funk and psyche 45s) couldn\u2019t get me to pony up that kind of dough.<\/p>\n

I have a wife, kids, and surprisingly enough<\/em> a conscience, all of which prevent me from indulging in that particular variety of insanity.<\/p>\n

This is not to say that there are people that would question my sanity in this regard (on both sides of the issue, i.e. some suggesting that my limits are too high, as well as those for whom expenditures in that league are common), but I have decided that no matter how much a 45 blows my mind, nothing so fleeting is worth that much, at least to me.<\/p>\n

That said, thanks to a fair amount of record nerds who operate in the same way \u2013 whether by choice or necessity \u2013 there has been for decades a brisk market in vinyl reissues.<\/p>\n

And I\u2019m not talking about 180g audiophile nonsense for someone to unsleeve with kid gloves and place on their scientifically engineered, space age turntable in their gold lined listening cave, but rather records (mostly 45s) pressed up and sold to DJ types so that even though they have not been lucky (or rich) enough to find an original copy of a record like \u2018Lonely For You Baby\u2019, they still might have a copy of same in their record box that they can whip it on folks on the dance floor of their choice.<\/p>\n

The really interesting thing (at least to me, once again record nerd related) is that some of these reissue 45s themselves become somewhat rare.<\/p>\n

Nothing like several hundred dollars rare, but much more than the seven to ten dollars they initially sell for.
\nYou tend to see a lot of this in the Northern Soul market, so much so that I have several UK-only repressings of records (some obviously so, others pressed to fool the less discriminating among us*) dating back to the very early 70s, a time when a number of 1960s soul records reentered the charts in England, thanks to the soulies.<\/p>\n

The tune I bring you today only set me back around 20 bucks, but not only is it worth every copper penny and more, but it carries with it another interesting tidbit.<\/p>\n

Back in the day (that being the 60s), a very tasteful and prescient chap named Dave Godin<\/strong> – verily the godfather of soul music in the UK (who would also go on to give name to the Northern Soul phenomenon) –\u00a0 opened a record shop by the name of Soul City.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Before long, Soul City also became a record label, founded with the express purpose of issuing hard to find US soul sides in the UK market. Between 1968 and 1970, Soul City issued a few dozen 45s in the UK (including Chuck Edwards<\/strong> \u2018Downtown Soulville\u2019, a Soul City issue of which holds a special place in my crates), at least one of which, Gene Chandler\u2019s<\/strong> \u2018Nothing Can Stop Me\u2019 made it onto the UK charts.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s important to note that what labels like Soul City, Mojo and Action were doing wasn\u2019t really \u201creissuing\u201d records in the commonly understood sense, but rather pressing what were by and large contemporary (within a year or two) issues of records for the overseas market. Many US record companies either had their own UK\/Euro subsidiaries or licensees, but sometimes it took folks like Dave Godin to see the value in (or at least the demand for) a more obscure US record.<\/p>\n

At some point**, someone (I\u2019m not sure who, since Godin passed away in 2004) reactivated the Soul City imprint, using the same basic logo and color scheme and started reissuing 45s, which is where this particular pressing of \u2018Lonely For You Baby\u2019 comes from.<\/p>\n

Now,\u00a0 the record itself is undeniably a wonder.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2018Lonely For You Baby\u2019 was Sam Dees\u2019 debut 45, recorded in 1968 for SSS Intl.<\/p>\n

The record opens with a hypnotic drum and bass riff that lulls you into submission, and before you know it your feet start moving, your hips start swaying and then Dees\u2019 vocal and the horns come in and the record (and the listener) really blasts off.<\/p>\n

Dees\u2019 vocal is incredible, and the arrangement is a marvel of powerful simplicity. Though you really only heard the bass, drums, piano and horns (and the barest bit of rhythm guitar) there\u2019s a serious amount of rhythmic propulsion here, so much so that \u2018Lonely For You Baby\u2019 is a big fave with the dancers on the Northern scene.<\/p>\n

Dees only recorded this one 45 for SSS Intl before leaving, going on to record for Lolo, Chess and eventually Atlantic. Dees eventually worked mainly as a producer and songwriter, penning hits for a number of other performers, the biggest being Larry Graham\u2019s<\/strong> recording of \u2018One In a Million You\u2019.<\/p>\n

I hope you dig the tune (I\u2019m sure you will<\/em>) 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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*The John Manship record guide includes a marking indicating whether or not a record has been bootlegged. There are a LOT of them<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

** As far as I’ve been able to tell this pressing is between 10 and 15 years old.
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