{"id":1711,"date":"2011-08-02T11:33:12","date_gmt":"2011-08-02T16:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funky16corners.lunarpages.net\/?p=1711"},"modified":"2013-05-29T18:51:53","modified_gmt":"2013-05-29T23:51:53","slug":"richard-berry-and-the-pharaohs-have-love-will-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=1711","title":{"rendered":"Richard Berry and the Pharaohs – Have Love Will Travel"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Listen\/Download – Richard Berry and the Pharaohs – Have Love Will Travel <\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/del><\/p>\n

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

I hope all is well in your little corner of the interwebs, as well as whatever connection any of us has to the \u201creal\u201d (less so every day<\/em>) world.<\/p>\n

As referenced in Monday\u2019s post, this has been an exceptionally busy couple of weeks for yours truly as well as a fantastic example the old saw about how life is what happens when you\u2019re busy making other plans.<\/p>\n

The Funky16Corners<\/strong> fam had quite a bit of planning (and travel) already penciled in on the calendar, and then a death in the family ended up sending us a few hundred miles in the opposite direction.<\/p>\n

Fortunately the week ended on a big up note, with the Funky16Corners Mobile Sound System<\/strong> rolling into Philly to provide the musical entertainment for a wedding party.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve spun many a night, but never before in celebration of someone\u2019s nuptials, and it was a stone gas.<\/p>\n

This probably has to do with the fact that the loving couple put together quite a wingding. In addition to requesting a soundtrack of the finest in funk and soul (me again<\/em>) with a concentration of the sounds of the Big Easy (you know how I roll<\/em>), the people were very cool (there were even a couple of Funky16Corners fans in the crowd) and the food was spectacular.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s always nice to be a part of a happy occasion (usually as a partygoer) but spinning records (there were more than a few people who were stunned to see vinyl being used) and seeing folks get down to stuff like Roger and the Gypsies<\/strong> and Professor Longhair<\/strong> was \u2013 in the words of my old man \u2013 \u201csomething else\u201d.<\/p>\n

If anyone else out there decides to get hitched and wants to hear music like that, you know where to find me.<\/p>\n

That said, I pulled out a grip of \u201clove\u201d related 45s on Saturday night (on account of what else are you celebrating at a wedding??<\/em>) but didn\u2019t get around to spinning today\u2019s selection, which is more a reflection of the fact that I went in loaded for bear than anything to do with the quality of the music in the grooves, which is \u2013 as usual<\/em> \u2013 quite high.<\/p>\n

However, it would have been groovy for two reasons, not the least of which is the fact that I use a spin on the title for the motto on the back of my DJ business cards (as seen directly below this sentence<\/em>).<\/p>\n

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You see, if you haven\u2019t heard the OG version of Richard Berry\u2019s \u2018<\/strong>Have Love Will Travel\u2019 (which is something that can also be said about his original \u2018Louie Louie\u2019, featured here a few years back) you have almost certainly heard the song covered by folks like the might PNW garage gods the Sonics,<\/strong> Paul Revere and the Raiders, The Black Keys, Thee Headcoatees,<\/strong> and Central Jersey\u2019s own Bruce Springsteen.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Released in 1960 (the title is a tip of the hat to Richard Boone\u2019s<\/strong> TV cowboy Paladin aka \u2018Have Gun Will Travel\u2019), and like \u2018Louie Louie\u2019 doomed to see success only in the hands of others (though in this case not much more) the original \u2018Have Love Will Travel\u2019 is a tightly swinging bit of West Coast R&B by Berry and his Pharaohs.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Opening with the \u201cbow bow bow bow\u201d<\/em> of the bass singer and pushed along by a hard-hitting snare drum and piano, \u2018Have Love\u2026\u2019 sees (hears?<\/em>) Berry\u2019s stellar lead sailing on top of the tight harmonies of the Pharaohs. Once heard \u2013 or danced to \u2013 it is immediately obvious why this record became an anthem of sorts.<\/p>\n

It was already a killer, but like \u2018Louie Louie\u2019 it was ripe for seismic reinterpretations by disaffected, snotty, testosterone fueled headbangers, fired up enough to convince their audience that the title was not in fact an idle threat.<\/p>\n

The record is sought after by both the Mod and Northern Soul crowd because it kicks all kinds of ass while retaining a stylish, dare I say<\/em> soulful veneer lost in most of the later interpretations.<\/p>\n

Not too long ago I got into a small interwebs shouting match with some thickheaded garage purist who insisted that in the case of \u2018Louie Louie\u2019 Richard Berry had been consistently outdone by most of his coverers. This goon had the poor taste to try to serve me a dish of cold \u201cPaul Revere and the Raiders did the best version\u201d, which I promptly sent back to the kitchen with a note that said something to the effect of \u201cpull your head out of your ass\u201d.<\/p>\n

I am of the opinion that if you have any taste at all for black music, once you\u2019ve heard Richard Berry\u2019s originals there\u2019s really no going back.<\/p>\n

Those that know me (or have happened upon my other blog Iron Leg<\/strong>) know that I have a definite taste for (and strong roots in) garage rock (the fuzzy 60s kind) but I\u2019m smart enough to know the real thing when it falls into my ears, and Richard Berry and the Pharaohs were\/are that real thing. All following versions are reinterpretations on a theme, and that theme has strong, deep roots in R&B that are not coming out no matter how hard some pageboyed, Beatle-booted stooge yanks on them.<\/p>\n

If today\u2019s story had a moral, it has something to do with knowing the value of those roots and paying respect to the people that cultivated them in the first place.<\/p>\n

So there.<\/p>\n

Bow bow bow bow, bow bow bow, bow bow bow\u2026.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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

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

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Richard Berry   Listen\/Download – Richard Berry and the Pharaohs – Have Love Will Travel   Greetings all. I hope all is well in your little corner of the interwebs, as well as whatever connection any of us has to the \u201creal\u201d (less so every day) world. As referenced in Monday\u2019s post, this has been […]<\/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":[20,14,67,64,12,18],"tags":[166,169,164],"class_list":["post-1711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dj-gigs","category-funky16corners","category-obituary","category-rb","category-soul","category-soul-45","tag-funky16corners","tag-northern-soul","tag-soul"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pMKgo-rB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711","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=1711"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3922,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711\/revisions\/3922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}