{"id":46,"date":"2010-01-24T02:13:23","date_gmt":"2010-01-24T02:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funky16corners.lunarpages.net\/?p=46"},"modified":"2010-01-24T02:13:23","modified_gmt":"2010-01-24T02:13:23","slug":"funky16corners-radio-v-77-get-ready","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=46","title":{"rendered":"Funky16Corners Radio v.77 – Get Ready!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Originally Posted 12\/13\/09<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Wayne Cochran gets uptight!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Funky16Corners Radio v.77 – Get Ready!
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Andre Williams \u2013 Do the Popcorn (Checker)
\nFreddie Scott and the Four Steps \u2013 Same Ole Beat (Marlin)
\nIsley Brothers \u2013 Get Into Somethin\u2019 Pt1 (T-Neck)
\nWayne Cochran \u2013 Get Ready (Chess)
\nBobby Byrd \u2013 If You Don\u2019t Work You Can\u2019t Eat (King)
\nAaron Chico Bailey & the Family Affair Band – The Point Pt1 (Kris)
\nBooker T & the MGs \u2013 It\u2019s Your Thing (Stax)
\nDixie Cups \u2013 Two Way Poc A Way (ABC\/Paramount)
\nEnoch Light & the Light Brigade \u2013 Pick Up the Pieces (Project 3)
\nBarkays \u2013 Son of Shaft (Volt)
\nBohannon \u2013 Fat Man (Dakar)
\nWilson Pickett \u2013 International Playboy (Atlantic)
\nDave Baby Cortez- Twang Taang (Sound Pak)
\nDonald Austin \u2013 Nanzee (Eastbound)
\nJimmy Preacher Ellis \u2013 I Gotta See My Baby (Round)
\nNite Liters \u2013 Afro Strut (RCA)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Greetings all.<\/strong><\/div>\n

Here we all are again, getting our thing together with a little of the soulful stuff so that we may fill our ears and massage our tired brains as we embark on another trying week. This week is even more of a challenge because the holiday season is in full gear, meaning that the roads and shopping centers are choked with mobs of people brimming with \u201choliday spirit\u201d, i.e. on the verge of killing one another so that they can spend a lot of money they don\u2019t have (especially this year)<\/em>.
\nWhy don\u2019t you do your friends a favor and send them a Funky16Corners<\/strong> mix for Christmas? They\u2019re free, and delicious, and will help fill from 45 minutes to an hour of their lives with the wonderfulness of funk, soul and jazz.
\nIt is in that spirit that I whip upon you yet another edition of the storied Funky16Corners Radio podcast \u2013 the 77th in the series \u2013 entitled \u2018Get Ready!\u2019.
\nWhat are you getting ready for? How about 45 minutes of grooving funk (almost exclusively from 45s) engineered to liven up your wassailing and or eggnog guzzling, up to, but hopefully not including destruction of the pagan tree in the middle of the room (or the seasonal symbol of your choice). You can turn up the volume, but just make sure no one dances into a flaming yule log.
\nThings get started with taste from the catalog of the always groovy Andre Williams<\/strong>. Williams made a bunch of outstanding 45s in the late 60s for Chess and Checker, and \u2018Do the Popcorn\u2019 is one of his finest. Look for the flip of this one, appearing in this space soon.
\nThe next track \u2013 by Freddie Scott and the Four Steps<\/strong> – already made such an appearance, but I couldn\u2019t help but toss it into the pot this time around.
\nI have to thank my man DJ Birdman<\/strong> for turning me on to the Isley Brothers\u2019<\/strong> \u2018Getting Into Something\u2019 the last time I was down in DC. He spun the long version of the track (which includes the extended break in Pt2) and I was like \u2018I know that sounds like the Isleys but I don\u2019t know that song.\u2019 And he hepped me to the title.
\nWayne Cochran<\/strong>, the man who\u2019s bouffanted visage appears on the cover for this mix was one of the truly great white soul eccentrics. His version of the Temps<\/strong> \u2018Get Ready\u2019 appears on the flip of a funky take on Muddy Waters’<\/strong> \u2018Hootchie Kootchie Man\u2019 (sic).
\nBobby Byrd!<\/strong> That\u2019s all I have to say on the matter.
\nAaron Chico Bailey and the Family Affair Band<\/strong> laid down their extended funk treatise \u2018The Point Pts 1&2\u2019 for Los Angeles\u2019s Kris label. Other than the fact that this is a very cool side, I can tell you nothing about them.
\nBooker T and the MGs<\/strong> were of course the preeminent instrumental band in Memphis during the 60s (and they had massive competition by the American Studios group and the Hi Rhythm Section), charting many of their own hits and backing countless others in the Stax\/Volt axis. Their version of the Isley\u2019s \u2018It\u2019s Your Thing\u2019 features Mr Jones <\/strong>working it out on the clavinet.
\nI won\u2019t bother trying to convince you that the Dixie Cups’ <\/strong>1965 \u2018Two Way Poc a Way\u2019 is true funk, but if those drums don\u2019t put a dent in your cerebellum, I don\u2019t know what will.
\nNext up is a bit uf funky disco from the master of all things easy (and occasionally funky) Mr. Enoch Light<\/strong>. Light had a crack outfit of East Coast sessioners at his disposal at all times, and their take on the AWB\u2019s<\/strong> hit \u2018Pick Up the Pieces\u2019 is dance floor approved. If you need more proof head back to Funky16Corners Radio v.62 and check out their excellent version of James Brown\u2019s<\/strong> \u2018Hot Pants\u2019.
\nThe Barkays<\/strong> made some great records both before and after the disastrous plane crash that took many of their members (as well as Otis Redding<\/strong>). Their reworking\/tribute \u2018Son of Shaft\u2019 doesn\u2019t stray too far from Isaac Hayes’ <\/strong>OG, but it is funky.
\nHamilton Bohannon<\/strong> returns to the Funky16Corners Radio scene with \u2018Fat Man\u2019, which is one of the funkier numbers on his 1974 \u2018Keep On Dancin\u2019\u2019 LP.
\nThe next cut is a track that I only discovered was a Wilson Pickett<\/strong> OG after I had already written up the cover by New Orleans belter Lee Bates.<\/strong> Had I looked at the writing credits on the label, I would have discovered that the song had Philadelphia origins, but sometimes I miss the forest for the trees. That said, the Wicked one lays it down hard and heavy making all sorts of claims as to his soulful powers. This is a killer, and the lyrics are hilarious.
\nDave Baby Cortez<\/strong> has made many appearances on Funky16Corners, from his early days as an R&B organist, through his soul sides and right on into the funk. The selection in today\u2019s mix \u2013 \u2018Twang Taang\u2019 – falls into the last category. It\u2019s more of a vocal number than a Hammond feature, but I dig it anyway.
\nDonald Austin\u2019s <\/strong>funky guitar feature \u2018Nanzee\u2019 was the flip side of the better known \u2018Crazy Legs\u2019. He drops the tempo down a little bit, but makes up for it with an extra serving of funky.
\nJimmie Preacher Ellis<\/strong> laid down some real heat when he whipped up the psychedelic funk of \u2018I Gotta See My Baby\u2019, which featured the brutal \u2018Put Your Hoe to my Row\u2019 on the flipside.
\nThe final cut in this edition of Funky16Corners Radio is a fairly well known \u2013 and accessible \u2013 45 from the mighty Nite Liters<\/strong>, \u2018Afro Strut\u2019. Why I waited until I had 76 mixes under my belt to include it here is a mystery.
\nI hope you dig it all, and I\u2019ll be back later in the week with something cool.<\/p>\n

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