{"id":4589,"date":"2014-02-13T12:09:24","date_gmt":"2014-02-13T17:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=4589"},"modified":"2014-02-13T12:09:24","modified_gmt":"2014-02-13T17:09:24","slug":"yvonne-fair-say-yeah-yeah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=4589","title":{"rendered":"Yvonne Fair – Say Yeah Yeah"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Listen\/Download Yvonne Fair – Say Yeah Yeah <\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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

The end of the week is upon is, so it is once again time to run the flag up the pole and send out the soul signal to remind you that the Funky16Corners Radio Show<\/strong> will be taking to the airwaves of the interwebs this (and every) Friday night at 9PM on Viva Radio.<\/strong><\/a> If you cannot be there at airtime you can always keep up with the show by subscribing to it as a podcast in iTunes.<\/p>\n

I thought I\u2019d end the week with a bang.<\/p>\n

The 45 you see before you is one that I picked up many (many) years ago, out in the field for a pittance. If memory serves, I wasn\u2019t even able to give it a listen at the time, having to wait until I got home.<\/p>\n

When I did, I could scarcely believe my ears.<\/p>\n

The record in question, \u2018Say Yeah Yeah\u2019 by Yvonne Fair<\/strong> was a funky, ever so slightly lo-fi banger, and if that was as far as things got, then I\u2019d still be a happy boy.<\/p>\n

But wait, there\u2019s more\u2026<\/p>\n

When I started to dig around a little, I discovered, much to my surprise that \u2018Say Yeah Yeah\u2019 was not only a James Brown<\/strong> production, but it was recorded and released in 1963!?!<\/p>\n

You read it right, Nineteen Hundred and Sixty Three, the very same year that the Godfather hit with \u2018Prisoner of Love\u2019.<\/p>\n

Not even James Brown was this funky that early.<\/p>\n

The safe assessment is that \u2018Say Yeah Yeah\u2019 was an outlier, a freak occurrence if you will.<\/p>\n

Yvonne Fair\u2019s vocal wasn\u2019t in and of itself that odd, even though it was admirably heavy and raw.<\/p>\n

Where things get crazy is the drums.<\/p>\n

KA-BOOM.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Whoever was playing the drums was beating them like they stole his lunch money, and syncopating the bejeebus out of them as well.<\/p>\n

Only the slightly old-timey organ, and the smoother, R&B horn section anchor it in 1963 at all.<\/p>\n

Fair recorded with the James Brown organization (recording for King, Dade and Smash) until the mid-60s, after which she resurfaces at Motown in 1969.<\/p>\n

She would record with Motown (working with Norman Whitfield<\/strong> for a time) through the 70s, having a string of R&B hits in 1974 and 1975.<\/p>\n

She passed away in 1994, only 51 years of age.<\/p>\n

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

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

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

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