{"id":485,"date":"2010-05-09T20:37:47","date_gmt":"2010-05-10T01:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funky16corners.lunarpages.net\/?p=485"},"modified":"2013-06-24T12:18:29","modified_gmt":"2013-06-24T17:18:29","slug":"eddie-holland-leaving-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=485","title":{"rendered":"Eddie Holland – Leaving Here"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Listen\/Download – Eddie Holland – Leaving Here <\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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

I hope you all had a good weekend.
\nI was recovering from yet another surgical adventure (expected if not planned) and walked out of the hospital knowing that there will be more in the future.
\nIt\u2019s not just that this has become a huge inconvenience, but even moreso a constant source of demoralization. I wouldn\u2019t even mind that much of it didn\u2019t require trips to the hospital, and usually anaesthesia. It always takes me a couple of days to get right after a procedure, thanks in large part to the haze that tends to follow you around after you\u2019ve been put under. There isn\u2019t even that much physical pain involved. I have a fairly high threshold for discomfort, but the pain in this case takes the form of a kind of wave of inconvenience, with people having to take off work, babysitters procured and an already tight schedule getting a couple of new speedbumps inserted into it.
\nI for one will be fine in a couple of days. The problems I have are not generally painful (providing that the proper medical steps have been taken) but I\u2019m always haunted by the specter of another visit to the doctor\/radiologist\/hospital, which in most cases, I\u2019d trade for a little actual pain.
\nMy whining aside, I am spending the weekend (when this was written) chilling, doing nothing remotely strenuous and trying to get my brain back on the tracks.
\nThe tune I bring you today has been a huge fave for decades, but it was a few years before I actually heard the version you see before you today.
\nBack in the garage\/mod days, one of the really important UK R&Beat touchstones was the music of the Birds<\/strong>. If you paused for a second there, you\u2019re not alone since the band in question existed during the same time period as the US Byrds<\/strong> (McGuinn, Clark, Hillman<\/strong> et al) and there was some legal friction when the US band alit in the UK.
\nFortunately for the UK band, the few, brilliant records they created could never be confused with folk rock of any variety. The Birds laid down some of the heaviest, razor sharp versions of US R&B ever recorded, as well as a couple of well crafted originals, and eventually a bit of freakbeat to close things out.
\nOne of their finest records, and a huge number among my crowd at the time was their version of Eddie Holland\u2019s <\/strong>\u2018Leaving Here\u2019. The song was covered by some of their contemporaries as well, but nobody came within a mile of the Birds for pure heat.
\nMy own band at the time, the Phantom Five<\/strong> tore up our own ragged but right version of \u2018Leaving Here\u2019 pretty much every time we plugged in.
\nAs I stated previously, it was a few years before I heard the original, eventually picking it up on a \u2018Hard to Find Motown\u2019 CD comp that turned me on to a fair number of other classics. The song would eventually be covered by the Who, the Tages, Jimmy Hannah and the Dynamics<\/strong> (a personal fave) and eventually by Motorhead<\/strong> and Pearl Jam.<\/strong>
\nTruth be told, though I dug the Holland OG from the start, it was a few more years before it edged the Birds version out of my consciousness and took the lead.
\nIt was a while (like two more decades) before I\u2019d grab my own copy of the Holland 45, with the gods of the interwebs smiling on me as I picked it up for what the mighty Ralph Kramden<\/strong> once referred to as a \u2018mere bag of shells\u2019.
\nHolland was \u2013 of course \u2013 part of songwriting legends Holland\/Dozier\/Holland<\/strong>. Though all three members of the famous triumvirate recorded their own records, Eddie Holland was by far the most prolific, recording well over a dozen singles (mostly for UA and Motown) between 1958 and 1964. \u2018Leaving Here\u2019 (written by Holland and Lamont Dozier<\/strong>) was released in 1963, and while it didn\u2019t make much of a dent Stateside, quickly became a fave of London\u2019s R&B obsessed longhairs.
\nEddie Holland\u2019s original is a fast moving dancer with piano and horns providing the backing, and a prominent snare drum laying down the beat. Holland\u2019s vocal is great, though it\u2019s not hard to understand why he would have settled for a lucrative career as a composer and producer considering the talent he was surrounded by on a daily basis.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a great soul dancer, and I hope you dig it as much as I do. I\u2019ll be back later in the week with more music (and less complaining).<\/p>\n

And, despite all the aggravation, know that I won’t be leaving here <\/em>any time soon.<\/p>\n

Peace<\/strong><\/p>\n

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


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