{"id":4181,"date":"2013-08-25T12:59:38","date_gmt":"2013-08-25T17:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=4181"},"modified":"2013-08-25T12:59:38","modified_gmt":"2013-08-25T17:59:38","slug":"the-exotics-boogaloo-investigator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=4181","title":{"rendered":"The Exotics – Boogaloo Investigator"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Listen\/Download The Exotics – Boogaloo Investigators<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

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

I was recently digging through my own crates to pull out some stuff for the radio show (and the blog, natch).<\/p>\n

When I almost flipped past the record you see before you, I just shook my head.<\/p>\n

You see, the Exotics<\/strong> \u2018Boogaloo Investigator\u2019 is a long, LONG time favorite and a very \u201cearly days\u201d funk 45.<\/p>\n

Picked up many years ago, after (if memory serves) hearing it on a mix tape, and for not a lot of scratch (though it\u2019s a lot more expensive now), the 45 was a perennial in my funk sets, and one of those records that always gets me to kick up the volume when it comes on in the car.<\/p>\n

Oddly enough, after all these years, I had never found any information about the group, thanks in large part to the fact that the fine folks at Excello didn\u2019t feel it was necessary to include composer or producer credits on either side of the 45.<\/p>\n

Fortunately for all of us, while a-Googling, I happened upon some info on Sir Shambling\u2019s Deep Soul Heaven<\/strong> site.<\/p>\n

As it turns out, the Exotics were a South Carolina group that recorded two 45s for the Nashville-based Excello organization in 1967.<\/p>\n

\u2018Boogaloo Investigator\u2019, a JB<\/strong>-inspired workout with a touch of novelty (re Dragnet) is a mover and a groover.<\/p>\n

Their second 45, \u2018Let\u2019s Try to Build a Love Affair\u2019 (you can hear it over at Deep Soul Heaven<\/a>) is one of the great Otis Redding<\/strong> sound-alikes (by vocalist John Riley<\/strong>) ever committed to vinyl.<\/p>\n

I hope you dig the sounds, and I\u2019ll see you all on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

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

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

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\nAlso, make sure that you check out the links below to the Be The Match Foundation and POAC (click on the logos for more info).
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PS Head over to Iron Leg too.<\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Listen\/Download The Exotics – Boogaloo Investigators Greetings all I was recently digging through my own crates to pull out some stuff for the radio show (and the blog, natch). When I almost flipped past the record you see before you, I just shook my head. You see, the Exotics \u2018Boogaloo Investigator\u2019 is a long, LONG […]<\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11,17,14,12,18],"tags":[163,166,54],"class_list":["post-4181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funk","category-funk-45","category-funky16corners","category-soul","category-soul-45","tag-funk","tag-funky16corners","tag-southern-funk"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pMKgo-15r","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4181","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=4181"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4216,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4181\/revisions\/4216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}