{"id":4377,"date":"2013-10-29T11:33:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-29T16:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=4377"},"modified":"2013-10-29T11:33:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-29T16:33:00","slug":"the-soul-citylittle-caesar-and-the-empire-everybody-dance-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=4377","title":{"rendered":"The Soul City\/Little Caesar and the Empire – Everybody Dance Now"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Listen\/Download The Soul City – Everybody Dance Now<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

Listen\/Download Little Caesar and the Empire – Everybody Dance Now (Vocal)<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

Listen\/Download Little Caesar and the Empire – Everybody Dance Now (Instrumental)<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

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

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

The tune(s) I bring to you this fine day bring with them something of a mystery.<\/p>\n

The world of soul is filled with re-used\/repurposed backing tracks (check out the recent copycats\/covers edition of the Funky16Corners Radio Show<\/strong> for some examples).<\/p>\n

\u2018Everybody Dance Now\u2019 by the Soul City<\/strong> is one of those explosive party-starters that soul collectors and DJs are always on the lookout for.<\/p>\n

The first time I heard it (via Kris Holmes<\/strong> Sunday Shuffle show) I knew I had to have a copy for my box, and it didn\u2019t take too long to score one.<\/p>\n

I know nothing of the group, or the label, though the comments on the Youtube video of the flipside \u2018Who Knows\u2019 seem to indicate that the Soul City may have also recorded under the name The Royal Robins<\/strong> on the Tru-Glo-Town label.<\/p>\n

Where it gets (more) interesting, is that while I was trying to track down info on the Soul City, I discovered that that there was another version of the song (employing the same backing track) by Little Caesar and the Empire<\/strong> on Cameo\/Parkway.<\/p>\n

It took me a little bit longer to track down a copy of that disc, but when I did I got a pleasant surprise indeed.<\/p>\n

The Little Caesar and the Empire disc included an instrumental dub of the song on its b-side, making it a fantastic companion piece for DJs that might want to mix the vocal and instrumental together for the dance floor.<\/p>\n

As it turns out, Little Caesar and the Empire were led by Robert \u2018Bocky\u2019 Di Pasquale<\/strong>, who had been the leader of the Ohio-based white R&B group Bocky and the Visions.<\/strong><\/p>\n

While I dig the vocal on the Soul City version a little bit more, Bocky acquits himself nicely, and I think either version would go over on the dance floor equally well.<\/p>\n

The Soul City 45 was popular on the UK soul scene, being a popular spin at the Twisted Wheel in Manchester.<\/p>\n

While these 45s don\u2019t turn up that often, when they do they aren\u2019t particularly expensive (though the UK issue of the Soul City 45 can get up there in price).<\/p>\n

I hope you 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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Soul City (above) Little Caesar (below) Listen\/Download The Soul City – Everybody Dance Now Listen\/Download Little Caesar and the Empire – Everybody Dance Now (Vocal) Listen\/Download Little Caesar and the Empire – Everybody Dance Now (Instrumental) Greetings all Welcome to the middle of the week. The tune(s) I bring to you this fine day bring […]<\/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_feature_clip_id":0,"_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":[37,58,14,66,24,12,18],"tags":[166,169,63],"class_list":["post-4377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blue-eyed-soul","category-cover-songs","category-funky16corners","category-instrumental","category-northern-soul","category-soul","category-soul-45","tag-funky16corners","tag-northern-soul","tag-soul-club"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pMKgo-18B","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4377","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=4377"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4383,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4377\/revisions\/4383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}