{"id":2979,"date":"2012-08-07T13:45:10","date_gmt":"2012-08-07T18:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=2979"},"modified":"2012-09-08T16:00:10","modified_gmt":"2012-09-08T21:00:10","slug":"clydie-king-bout-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=2979","title":{"rendered":"Clydie King – ‘Bout Love"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nClydie King (top) with the Raelettes:
\n<\/strong>(clockwise from top left) Alex Brown, Clydie King, Gwen Berry, Merry Clayton.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Listen\/Download Clydie King – ‘Bout Love<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

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

Welcome to the middle of another glorious week.<\/p>\n

The tune I bring you today is a longtime favorite of mine, by a singer that you\u2019ve probably all heard (whether you knew it or not<\/em>).<\/p>\n

As a youngster, back in the days of LPs and album covers, I \u2013 and my friends \u2013 used to spend a lot of time perusing record jackets, and after memorizing band line-ups, registering (almost subliminally<\/em>) the names of what might, for lack of better term, be called the \u201csupport staff\u201d, i.e. backing singers, horn sections, percussionists and producers (among others).<\/p>\n

As I grew older, and had years of stuffing factoids into my fevered brain, and became a collector of soul and funk in earnest, some of those names began to pop up again, and again.<\/p>\n

Among those names, one that loomed large was that of Miss Clydie King.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Truth be told, I can seldom say \u2018Clydie King\u2019 without also saying \u2018Venetta Fields<\/strong>\u2019 and \u2018Sherlie Matthews<\/strong>\u2019 the women with whom she was often grouped in background singing duties.<\/p>\n

As the Blackberries,<\/strong> they provided harmonies for Joe Cocker. Humble Pie, Leon Russell, Bob Dylan, the Rollings Stones, Steely Dan, Barbra Streisand<\/strong> (she appears with Streisand in \u2018A Star Is Born\u2019) and countless others.<\/p>\n

Interestingly, many of these singers, including King, got their start as Raelettes<\/strong>, alongside the mighty Merry Clayton.<\/strong><\/p>\n

King recorded her first 45 \u2013 as Little Clydie and the Teens<\/strong> \u2013 at the age of 13 in 1956.<\/p>\n

She went on to record in groups, duets (with both Mel Carter<\/strong> and Jimmy Holiday<\/strong>) and as a solo for more than a dozen labels between the mid-50s and the late 70s.<\/p>\n

The tune I bring you today hails from her 1971 LP for the storied Lizard label.<\/p>\n

Founded by producer Gabriel Mekler<\/strong>, Lizard released titles by King, Nolan Porter, Paul Humphrey<\/strong> and heavy rock by bands like Frantic<\/strong> and\u00a0Jamul.<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

I originally picked up King\u2019s \u2018Direct Me\u2019\u00a0LP (with one of the greatest low-rent design jobs I\u2019ve ever seen) because it contained a cover of a fave song of mine, Gladys Knight\u2019s<\/strong> \u2018You Need Love Like I Do\u2019.<\/p>\n

Once I got the record home, it was the track I bring you today that really grabbed me. It was several years before I found a copy of the 45.<\/p>\n

\u2018Bout Love\u2019, which has a certain amount of popularity amongst the Northern Soulies (rightfully so<\/em>) builds perfectly into an anthemic chorus that packs enough power to get any lazy ass up off of the sidelines and onto the dance floor.<\/p>\n

The album features Billy Preston<\/strong> on keys (King and Preston had sung together in church as teenagers and they worked together with Ray Charles<\/strong>) , Paul Humphrey on drums and David T Walker<\/strong> (who can be heard to great effect on \u2018Bout Love\u2019) on guitar.<\/p>\n

King continued to work as a backing singer and recording with the Blackberries, and Brown Sugar.<\/p>\n

She seems to have been out of the business for many years.<\/p>\n

I hope you dig the tune and I\u2019ll see you all on Friday.<\/p>\n

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In other, most excellent news, the mighty Bo-Keys<\/strong> featuring Percy Wiggins<\/strong> have a new single (Writing On the Wall b\/w I’m Still In Need<\/strong>) and if you can drag yourselves over to Soundcloud you can stream both sides!<\/p>\n

You can dig it here!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Read more about the Bo-Keys here.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Keep the faith<\/strong><\/p>\n

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

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