{"id":1895,"date":"2011-09-22T11:20:25","date_gmt":"2011-09-22T16:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funky16corners.lunarpages.net\/?p=1895"},"modified":"2012-02-22T12:42:57","modified_gmt":"2012-02-22T17:42:57","slug":"the-platters-shing-a-ling-a-loo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=1895","title":{"rendered":"The Platters – Shing-a-Ling-a-Loo"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Listen\/Download – The Platters – Shing-a-Ling-a-Loo <\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/del><\/p>\n

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

The weekend is almost here, and I don\u2019t know about you, but I am in a groovy place (geographic and spiritual<\/em>).<\/p>\n

I should remind you that the Funky16Corners Radio Show<\/strong> takes to the airwaves of the interwebs this (and every) Friday night at 9PM on Viva Radio.<\/strong><\/a> You can also pick it up as an MP3 right here at the blog over the weekend.<\/p>\n

Like soulful records by blues cats, I\u2019ve always had a special place in my heart for classic-era soul by R&B performers that you would normally file in an earlier era.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve posted sides before by groups like the Rivingtons, Flamingos<\/strong>, and Little Anthony and the Imperials,<\/strong> and a few times previous, by today\u2019s performers, the Platters.<\/strong><\/p>\n

One of the great hitmaking vocal groups of the doowop era, the Platters had their last big hit in 1960.<\/p>\n

Their producer\/songwriter Buck Ram<\/strong> carried the group on into the mid-60s, where, reconstituted (Herb Reed<\/strong> being the only original Platter) they recorded a couple of (excellent) albums and some 45s for the Musicor label between 1965 and 1971.<\/p>\n

It was during this period that they waxed some brilliant Northern Soul floor fillers like \u2018With This Ring\u2019, \u2018Sweet Sweet Loving\u2019, \u2018Washed Ashore (On a Lonely Island In the Sea)\u2019 and \u2018Get a Hold of Yourself\u2019.<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s selection \u2018Shing-a-Ling-a-Loo\u2019’ was included on the group\u2019s 1967 LP \u2018Going Back to Detroit\u2019. It is by no means a dense arrangement, basically a rhythm section augmented by saxophone, with the group\u2019s vocals providing most of the rhythmic punch.<\/p>\n

I always find it surprising that a group with this much name recognition, and material this strong was unable to make much of a dent on the charts (\u2018With This Ring\u2019 was their only Top 40 hit during this time), but then I remember that it was 1966 and 1967, the charts were densely packed with quality, and lots of performers found themselves making brilliant (and unjustly ignored) records.<\/p>\n

That said, this stuff isn\u2019t very expensive or hard to find, so get yourself some and whip it on your pals at your next soiree.<\/p>\n

I hope you dig it and I\u2019ll be back on Monday.<\/p>\n

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The Platters Listen\/Download – The Platters – Shing-a-Ling-a-Loo Greetings all. The weekend is almost here, and I don\u2019t know about you, but I am in a groovy place (geographic and spiritual). I should remind you that the Funky16Corners Radio Show takes to the airwaves of the interwebs this (and every) Friday night at 9PM on […]<\/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":[14,55,30,24,12,18],"tags":[166,169,164],"class_list":["post-1895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funky16corners","category-funky16cornersviva-internet-radio","category-lp-tracks","category-northern-soul","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-uz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1895","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=1895"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2438,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1895\/revisions\/2438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}