{"id":350,"date":"2010-03-07T19:00:53","date_gmt":"2010-03-08T00:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funky16corners.lunarpages.net\/?p=350"},"modified":"2013-02-20T19:01:37","modified_gmt":"2013-02-21T00:01:37","slug":"the-eight-minutes-heres-some-dances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=350","title":{"rendered":"The Eight Minutes – Here’s Some Dances"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Listen\/Download – The Eight Minutes – Here’s Some Dances <\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Greetings all. <\/strong>
\nI hope everyone enjoyed Hammond Week 2010, and you\u2019re good and ready to slip inside a couple of nice funk 45s.
\nBefore we get going I have a programming note, that being my return to Master Groove @ Forbidden City<\/strong> this Wednesday for some more of that good funk and soul spun at forty-five revolutions per minute. As always, I\u2019ll be joining DJ Bluewater <\/strong>and M-Fasis<\/strong>, and if you\u2019re going to be in the area (that being New York City, on Avenue A between 13th and 14th Streets) you should fall by, grab some cold beer and perhaps a steamed dumpling or two and soak up the sounds.<\/p>\n

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As I said, this week we\u2019ll be getting down to a couple of excellent funk 45s, all recent acquisitions. Consider it a middle course of sorts, cleansing the palate from the Hammond grooves of the previous week and in preparation of what will hopefully be another live mix from the decks at Forbidden City.
\nThe first of the weeks 45s is something I grabbed off of a set sale list last year after a short sample convinced me that to do otherwise would be foolish. Good thing to, since \u2018Here\u2019s Some Dances\u2019 by the Eight Minutes<\/strong> is a groover.
\nThe Eight Minutes were what collector types now refer to as a \u2018kiddie band\u2019, i.e. their ranks were composed entirely of children and adolescents. While it would be tempting to see these acts as a reaction to the success of the Jackson Five<\/strong>, keep in mind that a lot of this stuff predates the successes of the brothers from Gary, Indiana. The Five Stairsteps<\/strong> were charting with their Windy C sides as early as 1966 and the Eight Minutes (also from the Chicago area) released their first single in 1968.
\nThe Eight Minutes, composed of children from the Goggins (Hank, Ricky<\/strong> and Ronald<\/strong>) and Sudduth (Hedda, David <\/strong>and Wendel) <\/strong>families originally came together in 1967 as the Soul Impacts.<\/strong> They changed their name and started recording as the Eight Minutes (after adding Juwanna Glover<\/strong> and Carl Monroe<\/strong>, i.e. Minutes seven and eight) and released their first 45 on the S.I.M. label in 1968 (which included \u2018Here\u2019s Some Dances\u2019) , and then signed with the Jay Pee label. They recorded four singles for Jay Pee, the third of which includes a re-recording of \u2018Here\u2019s Some Dances\u2019. They eventually went on to record an album and a couple of 45s for the Perception label before breaking up in the early 70s.
\n\u2018Here\u2019s Some Dances\u2019 is an especially groovy side, working the time tested dance craze angle (with shout outs to the Push and Pull among other steps). The vibe has a rocked up, somewhat psychedelic edge to it, with some tasty wah wah guitar and wailing organ (as well as a drum break) that sounds as if the kids had been listening to Sly and the Family Stone.<\/strong>
\nThe Jay Pee version of \u2018Here\u2019s Some Dances\u2019 was comped a few years back by the good people at the Numero Group on \u201cHome Schooled: The ABC’s of Kid Soul\u201d.<\/strong><\/a>
\nIt\u2019s a very cool side, and I hope you dig it.
\nI\u2019ll be back on Wednesday with something from New Orleans.<\/p>\n

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The Eight Minutes Listen\/Download – The Eight Minutes – Here’s Some Dances Greetings all. I hope everyone enjoyed Hammond Week 2010, and you\u2019re good and ready to slip inside a couple of nice funk 45s. Before we get going I have a programming note, that being my return to Master Groove @ Forbidden City this […]<\/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":[17,14,12],"tags":[163,166,28,164],"class_list":["post-350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funk-45","category-funky16corners","category-soul","tag-funk","tag-funky16corners","tag-live-gigs","tag-soul"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pMKgo-5E","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350","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=350"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":375,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions\/375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}