{"id":1436,"date":"2011-04-10T12:54:15","date_gmt":"2011-04-10T17:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funky16corners.lunarpages.net\/?p=1436"},"modified":"2012-02-22T14:12:07","modified_gmt":"2012-02-22T19:12:07","slug":"righteous-brothers-harlem-shuffle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=1436","title":{"rendered":"Righteous Brothers – Harlem Shuffle"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Medley and Hatfield hail a cab!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Listen\/Download – Righteous Brothers – Harlem Shuffle <\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/del><\/p>\n

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

How\u2019s by you? Groovy, I hope.<\/p>\n

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This post sees the beginning of a very busy month for me and my record box, with another appearance at Spindletop @ Botanica<\/strong> Monday night 4\/11, which I suspect will be a gritty, mostly 60s funk bag. Things get rolling at 10PM, so drop by if you’re in the neighborhood.<\/p>\n

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This will be followed on Saturday 4\/16 by my first appearance at the storied Subway Soul Club.<\/strong> I\u2019ll be digging deeply into my Northern crates for this one, and I have a whole stack of recent acquisitions as well as many storming old faves that I assure you \u2013 if you are in a terpsichorean mode \u2013 will get you out of your seats and onto the floor. Since I\u2019ll be spinning alongside Phast Phreddie the Boogaloo Omnibus<\/strong> and Connie T Empress<\/strong> I can say without hesitation that you will be in for a night of the finest dance floor soul available on 45RPM discs. You do not want to miss it.<\/p>\n

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Assuming I survive the week, the Funky16Corners fam will be hitting the road for a little rest and relaxation, which will be capped off by two nights in northwestern Massachusetts, with stops on Friday 4\/22 in Greenfield (Sweet Exorcist @ The People’s Pint<\/strong>)\u00a0 and Saturday 4\/23 in Northampton (Wooly Bully @ The Basement<\/strong>) . I\u2019ll post more details as the week moves on.<\/p>\n

The tune I bring you today comes to you courtesy of my own curiosity.<\/p>\n

While I would say that it\u2019s safe to assume that my record jones is by and large a 45 thing, one of my favorite things to do is grab albums and plumb their depths to see what might be hidden in the grooves. Sometime last year I was out (I can\u2019t remember exactly where) and I happened upon the Righteous Brothers <\/strong>1967 LP \u2018Sayin\u2019 Somethin\u2019.<\/p>\n

I would not describe myself as a big fan of the duo, at least not of their biggest hits (some of which hail from the Wall of Sound). I would say that I dig both Bill Medley\u2019s<\/strong> thundering baritone, and to a lesser extent Bobby Hatfield\u2019s<\/strong> soaring tenor (occasionally falsetto).<\/p>\n

When I found the LP in question, and noticed that it contained a variety of interesting cover songs, I tossed it in the \u2018keeper\u2019 stack and took it home.<\/p>\n

When I got back to the crib and dropped the needle a few times, the track that really hit me was (not coincidentally) today\u2019s selection, the Brothers\u2019 cover of Bob and Earl\u2019s<\/strong> classic \u2018Harlem Shuffle\u2019.<\/p>\n

What grabbed me was the fact that Medley and Hatfield crank down the tempo a few steps, giving the song a menacing, vaguely sexy feel.<\/p>\n

The arrangement, by Bill Baker<\/strong> makes excellent use of the brass section (the trombones are tearing it up), and I dig the throbbing bass guitar in the background.<\/p>\n

While I don\u2019t see many people getting up and dancing to this one, it really is a groovy twist on a classic, and it sounds great on the old headphones.<\/p>\n

I hope you dig it, and that I\u2019ll see some of you good folks down at Botanica.<\/p>\n

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

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

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Medley and Hatfield hail a cab!   Listen\/Download – Righteous Brothers – Harlem Shuffle   Greetings all. How\u2019s by you? Groovy, I hope. This post sees the beginning of a very busy month for me and my record box, with another appearance at Spindletop @ Botanica Monday night 4\/11, which I suspect will be a […]<\/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":[58,20,80,30,12],"tags":[166,28,164],"class_list":["post-1436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cover-songs","category-dj-gigs","category-equal-opportunity-soul","category-lp-tracks","category-soul","tag-funky16corners","tag-live-gigs","tag-soul"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pMKgo-na","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436","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=1436"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1538,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436\/revisions\/1538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}