{"id":489,"date":"2010-05-11T19:55:31","date_gmt":"2010-05-12T00:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funky16corners.lunarpages.net\/?p=489"},"modified":"2015-02-04T09:05:14","modified_gmt":"2015-02-04T14:05:14","slug":"foster-sylvers-misdemeanor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=489","title":{"rendered":"Foster Sylvers – Misdemeanor"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Listen\/Download – Foster Sylvers – Misdemeanor <\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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

I come to you this midweek with something groovy.
\nLast year during one of my DJ trips down to Washington, DC the mighty DJ Birdman<\/strong> was gracious enough to take me hither and yon, over both hill and dale for some of the best digging I\u2019ve done in a long time.
\nThough the District of Columbia is the capitol of our great country, it should also be rechristened the Cheap Used LP Capitol of the East Coast. Though 45 come ups were few and far between \u2013 albeit quite rewarding when I did find them<\/em> \u2013 the DC metro area is awash in bargain basement used LPs. When I finally got back to Jersey and opened the back of the Funky16Cornersmobile<\/strong>, I was almost (not completely, just almost<\/em>) embarrassed by the huge stack of albums wedged between my duffel bag and my flight case.
\nIn addition to a bunch of longtime wants, and a grip of stuff that Birdman was kind enough to turn me on to, I also brought back a couple of records I might have passed on, were they not priced between twenty-five cents and a dollar, rendering them all but irresistible.
\nOne of these was the disc you see before you today, a record jammed into my digger\u2019s memory bank by its constant appearances on other people\u2019s finds lists.
\nThough I knew of the Sylvers<\/strong> (their \u2018Boogie Fever\u2019 was a huge AM radio hit back when I was a kid), I had no idea that Foster Sylvers<\/strong> had recorded \u2013 and had hits \u2013 on his own. The tune I bring you today was a hit (Top 10 R&B, Top 40 Pop) back in the Spring of 1973, eventually becoming an especially ripe bit of sample bait years later when it would be chopped and looped more than a dozen times for folks like Big Daddy Kane, Heavy D <\/strong>and eventually Aaliyah<\/strong>, which is likely why those in the crate digging set were sweating it so heavily (and why the LP often changes hands for between 30 and 40 bucks, the 45 sometimes going for more than that).
\nNow, I\u2019m all over a sweet break when I hear it, having spent some time punishing a drum set in my youth. I\u2019m not sampling or flipping anything myself, but there\u2019s something magical about a great sample, even more so when the song it comes from is especially nice.
\nSuch is the case with Foster Sylvers\u2019 \u2018Misdemeanor\u2019. Taken at face value, \u2018Misdemeanor\u2019 is a pleasing bit of sweet sounding kiddie funk (Foster was all of 11 years old when the song hit the charts, come to think of it, so was I\u2026<\/em>). Affix your headphones and dig a little deeper into the track and I think you\u2019ll find yourself pleasantly surprised, since wrapped around Sylvers\u2019 boyish vocals are all kinds of groovy sounds.
\nFirst off, the drums and bass are cracking, but close your eyes and sink into the arrangement and all of a sudden you\u2019re digging the wild lead guitar snaking around the track, bits of celeste and percussion here and there, and a hypnotic rhythm guitar track that kind of rises and falls as the song progresses. The arrangement by Jerry Peters<\/strong> (who also co-produced the album) is really something else.
\nThere are a few other interesting tracks on the album, but overall you have to remember that it was probably assembled for sale to whatever passed for ‘tweens’ back in 1973.
\nI hope you dig the track (give it a couple of close listens and see how it sneaks up on you), and I\u2019ll be back later in the week.<\/p>\n

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

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


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Foster Sylvers Listen\/Download – Foster Sylvers – Misdemeanor Greetings all. I come to you this midweek with something groovy. Last year during one of my DJ trips down to Washington, DC the mighty DJ Birdman was gracious enough to take me hither and yon, over both hill and dale for some of the best digging […]<\/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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[46,11,14,12],"tags":[163,166,164],"class_list":["post-489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digging","category-funk","category-funky16corners","category-soul","tag-funk","tag-funky16corners","tag-soul"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pMKgo-7T","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489","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=489"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5443,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions\/5443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}