{"id":36,"date":"2010-01-24T02:09:08","date_gmt":"2010-01-24T02:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funky16corners.lunarpages.net\/?p=36"},"modified":"2010-01-25T10:47:47","modified_gmt":"2010-01-25T15:47:47","slug":"ray-charles-sticks-and-stones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=36","title":{"rendered":"Ray Charles – Sticks and Stones"},"content":{"rendered":"

Originally Posted 12\/01\/09<\/strong>
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Listen\/Download -Ray Charles – Sticks and Stones <\/em><\/span>
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Greetings all.<\/strong>
\nThe week is well underway, and I am currently immersed in an object lesson on how no schedule ever goes un-F\u2019ed-with<\/em>, ever.
\nNot that I had a lot on my plate anyway (nothing hard and fast) but I sit here with not one but two sick children, and I have just been informed by the plumber that the existing shower apparatus needs to be replaced (not a small job).
\nI had a nice hot cup of coffee, and peeled a couple of delicious clementines, but not even those gustatory wonders have proven powerful enough to set things right.
\nIt is in that spirit that I bring you not the song I was planning on posting today, but rather something I was listening to on the MP3 delivery device last night as I was struggling to get back to sleep (sick child related<\/em>). The song in question is something I digimatized last year, and promptly forgot about. I tend to record vinyl in lots (as they are amassed in the wholly disorganized \u201cnew arrivals\u201d pile) and then transfer them onto the iPod, organized in playlists. Once they\u2019re in place, I listen to them as much as possible to \u201cexplore\u201d the music, deciding what I want to post and when.
\nSo, last night I\u2019m prowling around inside some older playlists to see if there was anything I had neglected, and lo and behold Brother Ray<\/strong> pops his head up, admonishes me for passing him over and giving me a (figurative, and soulful<\/em>) smack upside the head.
\nThe odd thing is \u2013 and this has happened before<\/em> – Ray Charles<\/strong> is a musician that I pretty much worship, and the likelihood is that I failed to post \u2018Sticks and Stones\u2019 sooner, not out of neglect but because I was waiting for a slot to open that would do a record like this justice. I over<\/em>-thought the matter, and forgot all about it (until last night).
\nIt bears mentioning that the first time I heard \u2018Sticks and Stones\u2019, it was not as performed by Ray Charles, but rather as a cover by the great mod revivalists the Secret Service<\/strong> sometime around 1985\/86, not doubt on the stage of the legendary Dive in New York City.
\nUnlike some of their more Jam<\/strong>-influenced brethren, the Secret Service drew heavily from the sounds of soul and R&B as previously recycled by the first wave British Invasion acts. It was via their playlists that I first heard Rodge Martin\u2019s<\/strong> \u2018Lovin\u2019 Machine\u2019 (which they picked up from an Easybeats<\/strong> video), and today\u2019s selection, which they no doubt heard via the 1964 cover by the Zombies<\/strong>.
\n\u2018Sticks and Stones\u2019, written by Titus Turner <\/strong>and Henry Glover <\/strong>(though only Turner is credited on this 45) is a classic, and a stellar example of how Ray Charles – seldom thought of as an out and out soul singer – was one of the (maybe THE) most important transitional\/formative figures bridging R&B and soul. Released in 1960, his version of \u2018Sticks and Stones\u2019 is a powerhouse, with a rolling quasi-latin beat (see \u2018What\u2019d I Say\u2019) and an electric piano solo that sounds like so much lightning shooting from the master\u2019s fingers.
\nIt\u2019s a brilliant performance, and proof once again that any self respecting fan of music (any genre) needs to get some Ray Charles in their life (and ears).
\nI hope you dig it and I\u2019ll be back on Friday with some funk.<\/p>\n

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

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Originally Posted 12\/01\/09 Ray Charles Listen\/Download -Ray Charles – Sticks and Stones Greetings all. The week is well underway, and I am currently immersed in an object lesson on how no schedule ever goes un-F\u2019ed-with, ever. Not that I had a lot on my plate anyway (nothing hard and fast) but I sit here with […]<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pMKgo-A","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","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=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions\/115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}