{"id":1322,"date":"2011-02-25T11:02:26","date_gmt":"2011-02-25T16:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funky16corners.lunarpages.net\/?p=1322"},"modified":"2013-05-29T15:44:43","modified_gmt":"2013-05-29T20:44:43","slug":"f16c-soul-club-spindletop-northern-soul-pt4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=1322","title":{"rendered":"F16C Soul Club – Spindletop Northern Soul Pt4"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Spindletop Northern Soul Pt4<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jackie Lee \u2013 The Shotgun and the Duck (Mirwood)
\nJudy Street \u2013 What (Grapevine)
\nRodge Martin \u2013 Loving Machine (Bragg)
\nOlympics \u2013 Mine Exclusively (Mirwood)
\nJJ Barnes \u2013 Day Tripper (Ric Tic)
\nBonnie and Lee \u2013 The Way I Feel About You (Fairmount)
\nMarvin Gaye \u2013 Baby Don\u2019t Do It (Tamla)
\nPieces of Eight \u2013 Come Back Baby (A&M)
\nLiberty Belles \u2013 Shing A Ling Time (Shout)
\nTommy & Cleve \u2013 Boogaloo Baby (Checker)
\nGuitar Ray \u2013 Patty Cake Shake (Hot Line)
\nGloria Jones \u2013 Tainted Love (Champion)
\nJean Wells \u2013 With My Love and What You Got (Calla)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Listen\/Download -F16C Spindletop Northern Soul Pt4 – 59MB Mixed MP3 <\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

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

The week is coming to a close, and so is our little experiment.<\/p>\n

I behooves me to remind you that the Funky16Corners Radio Show<\/strong> returns tonight at 9PM at Viva Radio<\/strong><\/a>. Make sure you tune in for the best in funk, soul, jazz and rare groove. If you can’t, make sure to stop by the blog over the weekend to\u00a0 pick up the MP3 version of the show.<\/p>\n

When you whip four separate Northern Soul mixes* on the blog on four consecutive days, you risk being accused of overkill.<\/p>\n

That my friends is a risk I am ready and willing to take<\/em>.<\/p>\n

You see \u2013 and I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve discussed this before, at least in this way \u2013 Northern Soul, or at least much of the music that meets the sonic criteria to be considered part of the genre, is some of the most dynamic, exciting and above all accessible \u2018soul\u2019 music.<\/p>\n

Though there are the occasional fringe records that fall inside the Northern bailiwick that manage to be danceable yet ultimately soul-less, they are the exception to the rule.<\/p>\n

To lay it out in the simplest way possible, Northern Soul was mostly (important word, that) imitation Motown, or at least music that strove to imitate those labels that arose alongside of Motown in the world of stylish urban soul. By this I mean labels like Okeh, Brunswick, Mirwood, Harthon, Fairmount, Chess, Calla and any number of smaller Detroit, Chicago, Philadelphia, New York, Los Angeles labels (or points anywhere else on the musical map) where records with pounding beats, pop hooks and soulful vocals were being made.<\/p>\n

When I was rapping with my man Perry Lane<\/strong>, I mentioned that my wife, a woman of exceptional taste but who would not normally be described as a soul fan, really digs the Northern sound. This is relevant because I\u2019d say that most hardcore soul fans approach records with an agenda, whether it\u2019s because a given 45 is cemented in a stylistic canon, coveted because of its rarity, or connected to a label, artist or other focal point.<\/p>\n

When someone who is not a record collector finds themselves drawn to a genre that they wouldn\u2019t identify, the chances are that they do so simply because they like the way it sounds<\/strong>. The music rises up from the grooves, through the stylus and the speakers and finds its way into the pleasure centers of their brain, and whatever part of the central nervous system that causes involuntary movement in the feet (tapping), hips (swaying) and head (nodding).<\/p>\n

A lot of the Northern Soul records that I have either hit me retroactively (i.e. I grabbed them because I was collecting a certain group, label or region) or because I heard them first (by the original artist on a comp) or second (via a cover by groups like the Action, Artwoods, Timebox etc) hand but as I became acquainted with the genre and found my way into the canon I began to seek out records because of that and the new stuff coalesced with the things I already had and I discovered a sound or genre rising from the depths of my crates.<\/p>\n

I realize that my attachment to this music comes at some distance, and that much of what made the movement exciting \u2013 the whole of Northern Soul culture in the UK \u2013 is part of the past, there\u2019s something rewarding (as there is when you spin any collection of music that ought to be better known than it is for people eager to listen, and dance) about gathering these sounds and whipping them on people.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve said this before, but it bears repeating, any DJ worth their salt carries with them the power packed in the grooves of records, and when you spin the right records at the right time, in the right sequence you release that power and pass it on to the people listening, and all that matters then is that good music that they may not have heard before is hitting those pleasure centers I mentioned a few graphs ago, and it is translated into smiles and movement and if you\u2019re lucky someone picks up on it and wants to seek it out on their own and an obscure, 45 year old record, filled with talent and passion lives another day.<\/p>\n

Because keeping the sound alive \u2013 keeping the faith <\/em>\u2013 is what it (and this blog) is all about.<\/p>\n

I hope you dig it, pull down the ones and zeros on this fourth installment and move, groove and feel it.<\/p>\n

I’ll be back on Monday.<\/p>\n

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

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

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* All recorded live on 2\/21\/11 at Spindletop @ Botanica in NYC
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If you want one of the new Funky16Corners stickers (free, of course) click here for info.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Check out the Funky16Corners Store at Cafe Press<\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

PS Head over to Iron Leg for an unusual cover of one of the greatest records of the 60s.<\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Spindletop Northern Soul Pt4 Jackie Lee \u2013 The Shotgun and the Duck (Mirwood) Judy Street \u2013 What (Grapevine) Rodge Martin \u2013 Loving Machine (Bragg) Olympics \u2013 Mine Exclusively (Mirwood) JJ Barnes \u2013 Day Tripper (Ric Tic) Bonnie and Lee \u2013 The Way I Feel About You (Fairmount) Marvin Gaye \u2013 Baby Don\u2019t Do It (Tamla) […]<\/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":[20,14,62,55,26,24,12,18],"tags":[166,167,169,164,63],"class_list":["post-1322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dj-gigs","category-funky16corners","category-funky16corners-soul-club","category-funky16cornersviva-internet-radio","category-live-mixes","category-northern-soul","category-soul","category-soul-45","tag-funky16corners","tag-funky16corners-radio","tag-northern-soul","tag-soul","tag-soul-club"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pMKgo-lk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322","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=1322"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3914,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322\/revisions\/3914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}