{"id":3421,"date":"2012-12-11T16:25:06","date_gmt":"2012-12-11T21:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=3421"},"modified":"2013-02-14T11:43:41","modified_gmt":"2013-02-14T16:43:41","slug":"myra-barnes-super-good-answer-to-super-bad-pts12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=3421","title":{"rendered":"Myra Barnes – Super Good (Answer to Super Bad) Pts1&2"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Listen\/Download Myra Barnes – Super Good (Answer to Super Bad) Pt1 <\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/del><\/p>\n

Listen\/Download Myra Barnes – Super Good (Answer to Super Bad) Pt2 <\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/del><\/p>\n

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

How\u2019s about some of the dead on the one, super heavy funk to help you get on up and over the hump?<\/p>\n

The record I bring you today is one that I was seeking for a long time, before it ultimately turned up in a box of cheapies at a record show.<\/p>\n

It looked a little distressed, but for three bucks I could not pass it by. When I got it home and dropped the needle it was immediately evident that I had made the right choice.<\/p>\n

That said, this 45, released in 1970 and credited to Myra Barnes<\/strong> (and then parenthetically to Vicki Anderson<\/strong>, who is Myra Barnes and vice versa\u2026<\/em>) is a killer.<\/p>\n

It is prime, funk 45 era James Brown<\/strong>-and associated action, with interjections by the king himself and some cool, fuzzed out guitar (which you get to hear a lot more of in Part 2) as well.<\/p>\n

The thing that always puzzled me, is why the double billing?<\/p>\n

Myra Barnes is the birth name of Vicki Anderson, one of the great divas of the James Brown organization.<\/p>\n

She recorded for a variety of labels, under both names, but oddly enough not in chronological order, i.e. even though there are \u2018Myra Barnes\u2019 45s released on the King label in 1970 and 1971, there are also Vicki Anderson 45s released before and after those (from 1967 to 1971).<\/p>\n

Was James trying to break Myra\/Vicki in any way possible, and playing any card available? Certainly the vocals on the Myra\/Vicki 45s sound like the same person, so it\u2019s not like she was working separate personas.<\/p>\n

There was some fluctuation in the position of \u2018main female singer\u2019 in the James Brown revue with Myra\/Vicki preceded by Anna King,<\/strong> replaced by Marva Whitney<\/strong>, and then returning to the fold before being replaced by Lyn Collins.<\/strong><\/p>\n

To complicate matters even further, she recorded again for Brown\u2019s I-Dentify label under the name \u2018Mommie-O\u2019<\/strong> in 1975.<\/p>\n

In the end, Myra Barnes\/Vicki Anderson\/Mommie-O laid down some of the finest records of the classic funk era, and JB himself reportedly considered her to be the finest singer he ever worked with.<\/p>\n

I hope you get down, dig the sounds, and I\u2019ll see you on Friday.<\/p>\n

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

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

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