{"id":2049,"date":"2011-12-04T17:22:23","date_gmt":"2011-12-04T22:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funky16corners.lunarpages.net\/?p=2049"},"modified":"2012-02-21T14:57:17","modified_gmt":"2012-02-21T19:57:17","slug":"upsetters-down-home-bw-dont-be-cruel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=2049","title":{"rendered":"Upsetters – Down Home b\/w Don’t Be Cruel"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Upsetters LP<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Listen\/Download – The Upsetters – Down Home <\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/del><\/p>\n

Listen\/Download – The Upsetters – Don’t Be Cruel <\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/del><\/p>\n

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

Welcome to another week at the Funky16Corners blog.<\/p>\n

My wife goes back in to the hospital this week for round two of chemo, so please keep her in your thoughts.<\/p>\n

I quite literally stumbled over today\u2019s selection during an Ebay search for Hammond 45s, saw the track, gave it a listen and knew I had to have a copy.<\/p>\n

Fortunately it was quite affordable, and along with the groovy instro, carried with it an unexpectedly excellent flip side.<\/p>\n

The little I have been able to discover about the Upsetters<\/strong> (these<\/em> Upsetters) is that they hailed from Baltimore, and had nothing to do with Little Richard<\/strong> or Lee \u2018Scratch\u2019 Perry.<\/strong><\/p>\n

These Upsetters were led by singer Jimmy Wess,<\/strong> and recorded one album for ABC in 1968 entitled \u2018We Remember Otis\u2019. The group consisted of Wess, Lee Foy<\/strong> (sax), Barry Sachs<\/strong> (guitar), Harry Hoehn<\/strong> (trumpet), Howard Ridgley<\/strong> (bass), Danny O\u2019Day<\/strong> (drums) and John Baseman<\/strong> (organ).<\/p>\n

The album included several Otis Redding<\/strong> covers, as well as a number of other contemporary tunes.<\/p>\n

The track that led me to this 45 is a little number called \u2018Down Home\u2019, even though a cursory listen reveals it to be a rip-off (way too blatant to be an homage) of the Spencer Davis Group\u2019s<\/strong> \u2018Gimme Some Lovin\u2019. Despite the fact that it has been appropriated, it is a rough and ready interpretation of the source material and the band really lays it in the groove.<\/p>\n

The real surprise for me however, was waiting for me on the flipside.<\/p>\n

No one sane would ever describe me as an Elvis<\/strong> fan, so when I saw that the other side of this 45 was a version of \u2018Don\u2019t Be Cruel\u2019, I was less than enthused.<\/p>\n

But then I listened to it.<\/p>\n

Wess and the Upsetters really lay into the tune, revving it up with a strong beat and a great horn chart.<\/p>\n

Though Wess doesn\u2019t sound a whole lot like Otis (despite a lot of effort in that direction) whoever did the horn arrangements really had their ear aimed in the direction of Memphis, and the results are excellent.<\/p>\n

I hope you dig the tunes, and I\u2019ll see you on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

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The Upsetters LP Listen\/Download – The Upsetters – Down Home Listen\/Download – The Upsetters – Don’t Be Cruel Greetings all. Welcome to another week at the Funky16Corners blog. My wife goes back in to the hospital this week for round two of chemo, so please keep her in your thoughts. I quite literally stumbled over […]<\/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":[58,14,12,18],"tags":[166,164],"class_list":["post-2049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cover-songs","category-funky16corners","category-soul","category-soul-45","tag-funky16corners","tag-soul"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pMKgo-x3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2049","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=2049"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2059,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2049\/revisions\/2059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}