{"id":1552,"date":"2011-05-15T16:39:53","date_gmt":"2011-05-15T21:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funky16corners.lunarpages.net\/?p=1552"},"modified":"2012-02-22T13:29:46","modified_gmt":"2012-02-22T18:29:46","slug":"sam-butera-love-bandit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=1552","title":{"rendered":"Sam Butera – Love Bandit"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Listen\/Download – Sam Butera – Love Bandit<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/del><\/p>\n

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

I hope that your world is just as groovy as can be.<\/em><\/p>\n

I\u2019m coming off a very busy, yet oddly relaxing weekend.<\/p>\n

The fam and I managed to hit up a great barbecue where we hung with some very old, end very excellent friends, and I was working on the new annex to the Funky16Corners Blogcasting Nerve Center and Record Vault<\/strong> family of fine interwebs products.<\/p>\n

What am I speaking of you ask???<\/em><\/p>\n

Well, since I\u2019ve been having so much fun doing the weekly Funky16Corners Radio Show<\/strong> over at Viva Radio,<\/strong><\/a> and then archiving the shows here at the blog, I got the itch to expand upon the theme.<\/p>\n

Initially the thought was to do something like a second, shorter edition of the Funky16Corners Radio Show, to be posted here.<\/p>\n

That still may happen, but ultimately I took a different tack, and worked up a show based on the goings on at the other blog in the Funky16Corners family, that being Iron Leg.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Iron Leg \u2013 if you haven\u2019t been there<\/em> \u2013 is where I rap about music from the same general time period that I cover here (60s\/70s), but the concentration is not on funk and soul, but rather pop and rock, covering garage punk, psychedelia, sunshine pop and the like.<\/p>\n

I know that many of the folks that fall by Funky16Corners will not necessarily find those sounds to their liking, but I also know that a lot of you are like me, i.e. musically omnivorous \u2013 where all good music is worth hearing \u2013 and will dig at least some of what I post at Iron Leg.<\/p>\n

That said, the Iron Leg Radio Show<\/strong><\/a> will be posted once a month (for now), and since it is not bound by the same time constraints as the Funky16Corners show, will generally in and around 90 minutes (though this inaugural episode runs over two hours).<\/p>\n

If this sounds like a bag you might find yourself in, motor on over to Iron Leg to check out the playlist, and if that tickles your fancy, pull down the ones and zeros and give it a listen.<\/p>\n

I think you\u2019ll dig it.<\/em><\/p>\n

Now, here at Funky16Corners, I figured I\u2019d open things up this week with something interesting, so adjust your reading glasses and your earholes and get yourself some Sam Butera.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve covered the late, great Mr. Butera here a number of times, mainly in his capacity as the bandleader for the equally late, also great Louis Prima.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Though Prima and Butera are mainly known for a very swinging variety of jump jazz (the very root of rock and roll), as the years wore on, and stylistic relevance outpaced their old sound, Prima and the Witnesses<\/strong> – the backing band usually billed as \u2018Sam Butera and \u2026\u2019 \u2013 recorded some funky stuff, usually for Prima\u2019s custom label.<\/p>\n

Though billed as \u2018Love Bandit\u2019, what you\u2019re actually hearing here is a funky reworking of Johnny Guitar Watson\u2019s <\/strong>R&B classic \u2018Gangster of Love\u2019 (though the Cadets<\/strong> also recorded the song in 1956 with the \u2018Love Bandit\u2019 title).<\/p>\n

Interestingly, though Butera and the Cadets before him used the same basic set of lyrics as Watson, neither one uses his tune.<\/p>\n

Butera\u2019s version takes the song at a funky, sock soul pace and Sam plays up the humorous aspect of the lyrics with a band that I assume has to be the Witnesses and some female backing singers.<\/p>\n

The arranger Maxwell Davis<\/strong> and the producer Bill Lazerus<\/strong> both spent a lot of years working at Modern Records on records by folks like Lowell Fulsom<\/strong> and BB King.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I have no hard data on when this was released, but I have seen a discography for the Coliseum label \u2013 which features some jazz artists like Count Basie<\/strong> and others that look like studio orchestras covering pop hits \u2013 with material that would seem to place this in the range of 1966 or 1967. This is only an educated guess, so if any of you good folks know for sure, and I\u2019m wrong, please let me know.<\/p>\n

Anyhoo, I hope you dig it, and I\u2019ll be back on Wednesday with something cool.<\/p>\n

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

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

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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 too.<\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

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