{"id":1349,"date":"2011-03-06T15:01:10","date_gmt":"2011-03-06T20:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funky16corners.lunarpages.net\/?p=1349"},"modified":"2012-02-22T16:07:21","modified_gmt":"2012-02-22T21:07:21","slug":"the-touch-pick-and-shovel-bw-blue-on-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=1349","title":{"rendered":"The Touch – Pick and Shovel b\/w Blue On Green"},"content":{"rendered":"

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My copy of the 45 (above) and two more variations (below)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Listen\/Download – The Touch – Pick and Shovel <\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/del><\/p>\n

Listen\/Download – The Touch – Blue On Green <\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/del><\/p>\n

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

I hope everyone had themselves an exceptionally groovy weekend.<\/p>\n

I just want to take a second to mention that I took some time this weekend to clean up the blogroll. There were a number of blogs that had either gone dark (for a variety of reasons), including a few faves, as well as a number of others that hadn’t had a new post in six months or more. There was also one that appeared to have been compromised with malware, so that got the axe too.<\/p>\n

If your blog was taken off in error, i.e. I caught you during a temporary break (I don’t get to go through the whole list all that often), please let me know.<\/p>\n

I figured I\u2019d get things started this week with something funky, that\u2019s also a bit of an intriguing mystery record.<\/p>\n

I grabbed \u2018Pick and Shovel\u2019 by the Touch <\/strong>off of a set sale list a while back, mainly because it\u2019s one of those meat and potatoes funk 45s that always seems to turn up on DJ playlists as well as the various and sundry places where groovy labels get posted for perusal on the interwebs.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately the copy I got had the exceptionally dull-looking Atlantic-distributed version of the 45. The original local issue on the Lecasver label is very cool (seen above).<\/p>\n

I mentioned intrigue because, though it is omitted on my version of the 45, the OG indicates that LeCasVer <\/strong>(an amalgam of the label owners names, Leanzo, Castellano<\/strong> and Verrico<\/strong>) bears an address in Cedar Grove, New Jersey.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s also the matter of the creativity-associated names on the labels (the flip is a cover of Booker T and the MGs<\/strong> \u2018Blue On Green\u2019), including John Frangipane<\/strong> and Vinnie Corrao<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Both of those gentlemen were NY-area session players, Frangipane on keyboards, and Corrao on guitar.<\/p>\n

The tune itself is a wild, off kilter Meters<\/strong>-esque affair with lots of wailing organ, choppy guitar, unusually animated bass and hard hitting drums.<\/p>\n

The flip, \u2018Blue On Green\u2019 is very faithful to its source material, with Frangipane approximating the Booker T organ sound very well. I actually dig the Touch\u2019s version more than I do the original. It has a warmer, more relaxed feel.<\/p>\n

As far as I can tell \u2018The Touch\u2019 wasn\u2019t a measurable hit anywhere, but I do know for a fact that there are at least three different pressings of this 45, i.e. the one I have, the one with the groovy lettering, and another one with a dark blue label and very simple lettering, so it was clearly getting around.<\/p>\n

I wish I knew more about the band, especially if they (like the label) were NJ-based, and whether or not they were merely a studio project or actually played out.<\/p>\n

The world may never know.<\/em><\/p>\n

However, there\u2019s a fair amount of funk packed into the grooves, so I hope you dig it.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll be back on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

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

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

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My copy of the 45 (above) and two more variations (below)   Listen\/Download – The Touch – Pick and Shovel Listen\/Download – The Touch – Blue On Green   Greetings all. I hope everyone had themselves an exceptionally groovy weekend. I just want to take a second to mention that I took some time this […]<\/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":[11,17,14,66,12,18],"tags":[163,166,164],"class_list":["post-1349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funk","category-funk-45","category-funky16corners","category-instrumental","category-soul","category-soul-45","tag-funk","tag-funky16corners","tag-soul"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pMKgo-lL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349","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=1349"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2545,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349\/revisions\/2545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}