{"id":236,"date":"2010-01-26T16:42:53","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T21:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funky16corners.lunarpages.net\/?p=236"},"modified":"2014-05-15T11:39:23","modified_gmt":"2014-05-15T16:39:23","slug":"ray-sharpe-help-me-get-the-feeling-pts-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=236","title":{"rendered":"Ray Sharpe – Help Me (Get the Feeling) Pts 1&2"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Listen\/Download – Ray Sharpe – Help Me (Get the Feeling Pt1) <\/em><\/strong><\/a>
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Listen\/Download – Ray Sharpe – Help Me (Get the Feeling Pt2)<\/em><\/a>
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Greetings all. <\/strong>
\nWelcome back to the new, improved, up tight, all right and solidly grooved Funky16Corners<\/strong> blog.
\nI should begin by dropping a few programming notes.
\nFirst and foremost, the move of all the old \u2018Wordpress-era\u2019 posts into the Archived Posts page (a mind numbing and eye-straining process) has been completed, so if there\u2019s anything you\u2019re looking for, hit up the link in the header. It\u2019s funny, in that I discovered that the first post I dropped when I transferred from Blogger to WordPress \u2013 back in June of 2006 \u2013 was, like the first post here at the independent Funky16Corners blog, a tune by Pat Lewis<\/strong>. Odd bit of synchronicity, that.
\nI haven\u2019t set a date for the implosion of the two old versions of the blog, but I supposed sometime in the next few weeks might work out, giving everyone some time to adjust their linkage. If there’s something specific you’re looking for (that Googles hasn’t picked up) you can always use the search function at the top of the page.<\/p>\n

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In other news, tonight (Wed 1\/27) I will be returning to Master Groove <\/strong>at Forbidden City (NY, NY , Ave A between 13th and 14th Sts) for another guest set alongside your host DJ Bluewater<\/strong> and our Asbury Park 45 Sessions colleague M-Fasis<\/strong>. If you are in \u2013 or near \u2013 the city, fall by and soak up some funk and soul, all spinning at 45 revolutions per minute.
\nThe tune I bring you today is one that I was unaware of, until I posted Aretha Franklin\u2019s<\/strong> \u2018Save Me\u2019 last summer<\/a>. One of the commenters (Pete W) informed me that the original version of the song was not Aretha\u2019s 1967 version, but a record from the previous year, Ray Sharpe\u2019s<\/strong> \u2018Help Me (Get the Feeling)\u2019.
\nI set right out to find myself a copy of that 45, and managed to procure it about a month later.
\nIt took a little bit of time, because in addition to your run of the mill soul fans, it turns out that Jimi Hendrix<\/strong> fans\/collectors were also on the lookout for this particular 45 (since Hendrix played guitar on the session as part of King Curtis\u2019<\/strong> group).
\nSo, I get my copy of the record, slap it on the turntable for digi-ma-tization, and discover that it was indeed a cooker.
\nSharpe is a minor, but significant figure in musical history. The native Texan had truly unusual start for a black artist, in that his first big impact was with a rockabilly 45, 1958\u2019s \u2018Linda Lu\u2019<\/a>. He continued to record through the 60s and 70s, laying down rock, soul and R&B sides for a variety of labels. I\u2019m not 100% sure, but I believe that Sharpe recorded at lest one 45 with the Soul Set for the Philadelphia Sock & Soul label in 1968.
\nWhen he recorded \u2018Help Me (Get the Feeling)\u2019 in 1966, he shared composing credit with both King Curtis, and the King\u2019s primary guitarist Cornell Dupree<\/strong> (it\u2019s Dupree who lays down the lead guitar on the track, not Hendrix). Interestingly, where the guitar line on Franklin\u2019s \u2018Save Me\u2019 is reminiscent of Them\u2019s <\/strong>\u2018Gloria\u2019, \u2018Help Me (Get The Feeling)\u2019 falls much closer to the 1965 Van Morrison<\/strong> classic, with lyrical references to the original.
\nThe basic backing track really got around, appearing first on the Sharpe 45, then on Franklin\u2019s record, then again in 1967 when \u2018Help Me\u2019 was covered (using the backing track) by Jamaican singer Owen Gray<\/strong>, and then AGAIN in 1968 when King Curtis re-used it for his own \u2018Instant Groove\u2019. According to a Hendrix history web site<\/a>, the Owen Gray version can be heard in the background of a taped Hendrix interview, where he hears the record playing and says “…just in case anybody can hear a guitar in the background that’s me playing in New York when I was starving..”
\nAnyhoo, I\u2019ll leave it up to you to decide whether this record is heavier on it\u2019s own merits, or on account of its history (I vote for the former).
\nI hope you dig it, and I\u2019ll be back on Friday.<\/p>\n

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