{"id":1302,"date":"2011-02-17T16:04:06","date_gmt":"2011-02-17T21:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funky16corners.lunarpages.net\/?p=1302"},"modified":"2015-02-04T21:46:17","modified_gmt":"2015-02-05T02:46:17","slug":"tony-clarke-the-entertainer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=1302","title":{"rendered":"Tony Clarke – The Entertainer"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Listen\/Download – Tony Clarke – The Entertainer <\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/del><\/p>\n

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

I sit here tapping away on the laptop at the end of yet another busy week (I suppose I should get suspicious when things aren\u2019t busy).<\/p>\n

I figured since the previous post was so heated, it behooved me to cool things down.<\/p>\n

But first, the bid-ness<\/em> must be taken care of.<\/p>\n

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I should remind you that I\u2019ll be returning to Spindletop at Botanica<\/strong> this coming Monday<\/strong> evening (2\/21) <\/strong>, at 10PM<\/strong> for an evening of soul on 45. I\u2019m thinking of taking a Northern Soul tack this time, so if stylish 60s dancers are a bag you\u2019re in, fall by, grab yourself a cocktail and groove to the sounds.<\/p>\n

Speaking of groovy sounds, this Friday night at 9PM I\u2019ll be doing me regular thing, that being the Funky16Corners Radio Show<\/strong> on Viva Radio<\/strong><\/a>. Tune in for the best in funk, soul, jazz and rare groove all on vinyl, and all engineered to please the ear. If you can\u2019t be there at 9PM, you can always come by the blog over the weekend and pick up the show as a downloadable MP3 which you can stuff into the iPod or iPod-esque device of your choice.<\/p>\n

Now, as I mentioned, the tune I bring you today is something a little smoother, a tiny bit mellower and of course, soulful to ease you into the weekend.<\/p>\n

Though I knew the name Tony Clarke<\/strong>, I didn\u2019t actually hear (or own) any of his records until I picked up today\u2019s selection in a huge lot of 45s (which I bought to get something else, making this one what the hipsters of yore would refer to as \u2018gravy\u2019).<\/p>\n

When I pulled \u2018The Entertainer\u2019 out of the box, I took one look and didn\u2019t have much hope that it would be playable, since a cursory glance would indicate that at some time it had duct tape attached to it (I can’t imagine why).<\/p>\n

Fortunately, as you\u2019ll hear, it cleaned up pretty well.<\/p>\n

Clarke was a NY born, Detroit raised singer who recorded a number of 45s for Chess between 1964 and 1968.<\/p>\n

Among these was \u2018The Entertainer\u2019, a Top 40 hit in 1965, and\u00a0 1967 ‘s \u2018Landslide\u2019 which would become a Northern Soul classic.<\/p>\n

Though it\u2019s not the stormer that \u2018Landslide\u2019 is, \u2018The Entertainer\u2019 has a certain laid-back, Chicago sound to it that is smooth yet still danceable.<\/p>\n

It opens with drums and organ, and a riff inspired by George Gershwin\u2019s<\/strong> \u2018I Got Plenty O\u2019Nothin\u2019 (from \u2018Porgy and Bess\u2019) as well as some classy guitar work. The arrangement by Phil Wright,<\/strong> including some tasteful horns, is especially nice.<\/p>\n

Sadly, Clarke would be killed in a domestic incident in 1970. He was only 26.<\/p>\n

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

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Tony Clarke Listen\/Download – Tony Clarke – The Entertainer Greetings all. I sit here tapping away on the laptop at the end of yet another busy week (I suppose I should get suspicious when things aren\u2019t busy). I figured since the previous post was so heated, it behooved me to cool things down. But first, […]<\/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":[20,14,55,52,12,18],"tags":[171,166,28,169,164],"class_list":["post-1302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dj-gigs","category-funky16corners","category-funky16cornersviva-internet-radio","category-radio-show","category-soul","category-soul-45","tag-chicago-soul","tag-funky16corners","tag-live-gigs","tag-northern-soul","tag-soul"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pMKgo-l0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302","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=1302"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5511,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302\/revisions\/5511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}